Java, views and advice.

So I somehow managed to lead myself into learning Java. I have to ride it out for the moment becuase I have a major Comp Sci project to do, and I don't know any other languages (well, apart from the usual VB, Delphi, Turbo Pascal - not very useful for a final year project).

Question is, should I stick with Java after I finish university and try and get a job with that? Or should I abandon it and move on to a different language?

So far, I like Java, it is stupidly verbouse, but that kind of reminds me of Turbo Pascal, so it's no biggy. Java seems really strict when it comes to OO, which is giving me a real headache seeing as this is the first OO language I've used.

I think the main reason I like it is that it's cross platform. But I'm willing to learn something else if it's going to be better for me in the long-run (job wise). Any suggestions?

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Java killed my passion for programming. C# brought the passion back, although it's also got as much to do with the mentality behind it's design and .NET in general.


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And a lot less suck. When MS announced .NET (around 2000?), the general concensus was it would be vapourware. When it was finally released, a lot of the naysayers, including companies that had been fully pro-Java till then, ended up swallowing their pride and announced that .NET was in fact, unbelievably good, after using it.

Java's 'popularity' owes a lot to the fact that you need an army of bozos to do something when 1 reasonably competant person would have sufficied.

|Batchelor's degrees are seriously devalued these days, try for a master's or even a PhD.
Even masters and PhDs are seriously worthless these days. PhD comes in for interview....and knows nothing outside of repeating marketing and textbook answers. Exactly WTF do they do these days?! It this keeps up, I swear one day I'm going to do a Ballmer.