Mike on “Do I Want to Learn Java?”
Depends on what type of developer you want to be. Not many shops use J2EE for their web apps unless they're big companies or have some intense architectures, so if you learned J2EE you'd probably be doing some bigtime projects, not the kiddy stuff.
On the other hand, if you learned normal Java for writing desktop apps, you'd be writing desktop software (obviously) but a lot less efficiently than if you knew C or other high-level languages.
FYI: I know Java but haven't written it in a few years, same with J2EE stuff.