Right, the same goes for C#. And even ignoring all the new (functional) elements it's still really dumb to say that you shouldn't learn something because it's "

Right, the same goes for C#. And even ignoring all the new (functional) elements it's still really dumb to say that you shouldn't learn something because it's "old". By the time half of the current crop of new languages have died Java and C# will still be in use at large scale.