Editing Comparison of Java and C++ (section)

{{Short description|Comparison between two programming languages}}
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[[Java (programming language)|Java]] and [[C++]] are two prominent [[object-oriented]] [[programming language]]s. By many language popularity metrics, the two languages have dominated object-oriented and high-performance software development for much of the 21st century, and are often directly compared and contrasted. Java's syntax [[Java (software platform)#History|was based on C/C++]].