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by 29athrowaway 2214 days ago
Java and C#, in that order.

C# appeared after Sun sued Microsoft for trying to embrace/extend Java.

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That strategy worked really well for Sun Microsystems.
Some of the technologies associated with Sun that you can use today free of charge: NFS, ZFS, DTrace, Java, NetBeans, VirtualBox, OpenOffice, MySQL.

They don't deserve the trash talk.

Google helped a bit.