The purity of Bernini's work here refutes the popular conception of Baroque as being nothing but overblown extravagance.
These examples of Bernini's work completely contrast the idea of Baroque being overblown extravagance.
These things make it much easier to learn than C. Shuman's harping on s-l-o-w probably says more about the quality of Microsoft's virtual machine than it does about Java or the Java paradigm.