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>Java is a more productive language than C++ -- garbage collection means
>that you spend much less time searching for memory leaks and prematurely
>freed objects.


Is the garbage collection stable and wothout problems?

>Java is more maintainable because it is simpler -- no operator
>overloading, no copy constructors etc. I'd claim that you can't write
>good C++ without knowing Scott Meyers' books, but most of the traps he
>points out can't get you in Java.


Operator overloading is a key benefit to OOP, I suppose in Clipper we didn't
have it either, but, in C++ it has turned out to be a good thing.

>Java is cross-platform -- i.e. any Java application will run on any
>platform a JVM is available for. Yes, C++ compilers are available for
>many platforms, but each one has a different API for the user interface


How is it for interfacing equipment to the computer?


PS> Thanks for your input thus far.