[ExoticPearTree]

I second the C# praise: we have a few teams building software with C# and having to debug it here and there, it is very modern, compiles cross-platform and has lots of functionality already built-in and from the release notes I read from time to time, the people behind it know what they are doing.

[yuye]

I used to work at a C# firm and we always called it "Microsoft Java", but that's such an insult. C# is way better, I've really enjoyed writing in it.

And it actually has pretty good interop with C++/CLI, too.