I'm gonna get a lot of people kicking me in my ears for this one, just don't do until in bleeding out of them.. k? It's all about maturity. C# and most MS languages are VERY mature, why? Because these guys need to develop huge products, like Windows and Office, with the exact same tools (I have yet to see an OS, which ain't possible, or mainstream SQL database written in Java)... Oh, people might say that Microsoft is deviating from ANSI with MC++, but honestly, ANSI C++ was developed when? 1000BC? Are we still decorating caves with clubs? No, we are decorating classes with attributes. And please (and this is when I step on some toes), you will cry if you move to Java from C#. Imagine making a class for every event you want to handle, imagine not being able to write user-level threads... Back in the day when we still had programs that had 3 buttons and ran on a single CPU, Java was the [insert fowl rapper word here], and it has its uses (especially cellphone: but now everyone is going smartphone: MS C++/C# then). Java was a piece of art in the day. But why would you use a car to get to work if you could use a chopper? Microsoft just knows thier [once again]...

Got my first VIC 20 when I was 10 (I think)... BASIC then. Then I upped to an XT after about 2 years and used QBASIC (Same difference) and then got my Pentium 1 a while later...