Believe it or not C and its variants is still used, particularly in situations where real-time is a concern. Nowadays C++, C# and Java seem to the hot tickets though. But I prefer to take a pragmatic approach: A language is a language, a tool is a tool. You work with whatever fits the situation better. If you're developing for MS then C# and .NET are probably the tools of choice, on Unix, probably back into C++, and so on. Sometimes a PERL script is all you need.
In all probability your son will likely know Java before you know it. All the kids these days know it. We don't do a lot of Java development over here there though although we do have a few products that are predominantly Java based, that sit on top of our core products (which are more low-level).
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My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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