[Dominic Harr]

I've found that you don't latch on to 'languages', you hitch your wagon to 'concepts'. List the concepts that make for a superior programming environment:

• OOA/OOD
• managed code
• tight security framework
• 3-tiered architecture / network-friendly
• platform-independent
• source-code available for my perusal

Learn/use a language with those concepts, and then you can port your skills to the next 'latest, greatest' language-du-jour.

I've been working in Java full time for over 8 years now. Because of my abilities with OO and the 3-tiered world, I've actually been offered .NET architecture jobs several times. And when something better than Java comes along I'll have skills that will still be marketable (from my experience, I do *not* believe that .net fits in this catagory, but YMMV).

[Bush2000]

I've found that you don't latch on to 'languages', you hitch your wagon to 'concepts'.

Harr, I won't soon forget that thread in which you asserted that representing RSA-public-key-encrypted data as text was "insecure". Dude, please ... don't educate yourself. You're hilarious, just the way you are ...