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As java is a c family derived strongly typed language it simplified some aspects of the lower level languages like c and c++ which don't run on JVM's (both c/c++ compile to machine and thus are optimally performant for many types of problems but that performance comes at the cost of the increased complexity of the languages themselves. They require that you understand and care about pointers for example. C# stands apart as a bit of a java clone made to run on Microsoft's CLI....though syntactically it is also very similar to c family languages. As for how long it would take to learn it depends on how well you know java in the first place and on if the type of problems you wish to solve require the unique use of the low level constructs that are made available in c and c++ (pointers, garbage collection in particular) that in java and c# are taken care of for you by the virtual machine. Source : Net-Informations.Com - Free online resource for Microsoft .NET developers Dov