Last week I was talking with a manager on the subject of C++ versus Java. The motivation behind this was if a project needs to be developed in C++ does experience in Java could be useful to quickly learn the specifics of C++ and become proficient in a very short period of time.
I would like to share my thoughts regarding this question. Perhaps it will shed some light into similar discussions that may arise in current or future projects. I would like to state that in my software development career I have learned and used a few procedural and OO programming languages (Assembly Language (multiple processors), BASIC, Bash shell, C shell, C, C++, C#, Fortran, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/1, PL/C, Python, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Visual Basic and Visual C++ among others). In some projects I have written several million LOC using a single programming language. Continue reading “C++ or Java?”