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John MacDonald wrote:
> 
> >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 without problems?

I haven't had problems traceable to this, but I can't speak for JVMs in
general.

> >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.

Operator overloading is just syntactic sugar. IMHO there is nothing
significantly better about:

String operator+(String s)

compared to:

String append(String s)

And operator overloading often makes C++ harder to read.

> >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?

There is a standard API for accessing serial ports (I haven't used it)
and you can call native code, but I wouldn't use Java to write a device
driver (I would think twice about using C++ too).

Tom