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Java is not going away anytime soon, knowledge of it would do no harm if you are looking to work as a programmer. I was trained in COBOL and FORTRAN. I used CO

by peterhi 17y ago

Java is not going away anytime soon, knowledge of it would do no harm if you are looking to work as a programmer. I was trained in COBOL and FORTRAN. I used COBOL for all of six months (more than twenty years ago) and never used FORTRAN. But knowing them got me my first programming job.

gaius 17y ago
At the age of 17, tho', doing something not at all related to computers and academia is far more impressive on the ol' CV than yet another programming language. Why aren't you an Eagle Scout or something? I'm in my 30s now and no-one cares that I knew Pascal once, but in job interviews I still get asked about being on the rifle team at school...