Whichever one works best for the organization.

We believe in honesty, not advocacy, and the honest answer is that there

is no single answer. What is the organization’s policy regarding languages?

Must there be one and only one official language? What is the skill level of

the staff? Are they gung-ho developers with advanced degrees in computer

science/engineering or people who understand the business and have survival

skills in software? Do they already have OO skills? In which language(s)? What

sort of software development is being done: extending someone else’s framework

or building from scratch for resale? What sort of performance constraints does

the software have? Is it space constrained or speed constrained? If speed, is it

typically bound by I/O, network, or CPU? Regarding libraries and tools, are

there licensing considerations? Are there strategic partnership relationships that

affect the choice of languages? Many of these questions are nontechnical, but

they are the kind of questions that need to be answered the “which language”

issue can be addressed.

Regarding the choice between C++ and Java, java is a simpler language and

thus it is generally easier to use. However C++ is more established and allows

finer control over resources (for example, memory management), and this is required

for some applications. Also, C++ has language features such as destructors