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Originally, they were made by different companies, but I believe recently Autodesk bought Maya. Don't know if they have since then somehow merged capabilities of each program into the other or not.
Knowing C++ and Java might help you in writing scripts for the programs, but otherwise, it's a different thing, they are 3D modeling/rendering software, not programming languages.
Oh, and welcome to the asylum...

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Don't think its a genuine forum goer. Just like this one: viewtopic.php?f=63&t=8528&p=94883&hilit=cloth#p94883
Looks like what's happened is that previous user edited their post to include those links. Pretty crafty, guess this was going to be the same tactic.
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