i know people have already posted alot on this, but here'e my 2 cents. java is easy. there are a HUGE number of libraries that sun and other people have provided. No matter what you are trying to accomplish, if you look hard enough, you'll find that someone has already written a function to do it for you. In C++, there are quite a few default libraries, but you deal with alot more in depth coding using system calls and whatnot. THis is even more true if you use C (which I do). Besides this, the syntax for the languages are pretty similar, and each could be written to look like the other. The real difference, as I see it, is the performance. C/C++ has very little abstraction between the program and the operating system, making it very fast. Java, on the other hand, has a virtual machine between it and the OS, which increases portability, but decreases speed immensly. Also, java is an entirely interpreted language, which (very basically) means is compiles each line as it reads it, slowing it down further. In the end, unless you're writing an applet for use on a website, theres no reason to use java if you've got a decent amount of programming skill.-afrothunder
