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Difference between C++ and Java

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Difference between C++ and Java

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Founder : Java was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs since 1979 as an extension of the C language.

First Release : Java was released on May 23, 1995. C++ was released in October 1985.

Stable Release : Java SE 14 or JDK 14 was released on March 17, 2020. C++17 was released in December 2017.

Influenced By : Java was Influenced by Ada 83, Pascal, C++, C#, etc languages. C++ was Influenced by Influenced by Ada, ALGOL 68, C, ML, Simula, Smalltalk etc language.

Influenced to : Java was influenced to develop BeanShell, C#, Clojure, Groovy, Hack, J#, Kotlin, PHP, Python, Scala, etc languages. C++ was influenced to develop C99, Java, JS++, Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Rust, Seed7, etc languages.

Platform Dependency : Platform independent, Java bytecode works on any operating system. C++ is platform dependent should be compiled for different platforms.

Portability : Java can run in any OS hence it is portable. C++ is platform-dependent hence it is not portable.

Compilation : Java is both Compiled and Interpreted Language. C++ has only Compiled Language.

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