Java is a high-level, general-purpose, memory-safe, object-oriented programming language. It is intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere, meaning that compiled Java code can run on all pla
James Gosling, the creator of Java, in 2008
C++ is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programming language, adding object-or
Java (programming language)
…to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture. The syntax of Java is similar to C and C++, but has fewer low-level facilities than either of them. The Java runtime provides dynamic abilities (such as reflective programming (reflection) and…
Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, in his AT&T New Jersey office, c. 2000
A quiz on C++11 features being given in Paris in 2015
Scene during the C++ standards committee meeting in Stockholm in 1996
The draft "Working Paper" standard that became approved as C++98; half of its size was devoted to the C++ Standard Library.