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...it only has inheritance of interface and no implementation inheritance. (Java does both of the above, C++ only has the later).

C++ supports implementation inheritance if you use pure virtual base classes (which is a good thing to do, by the way). Another way that C++ can do something like implementation inheritance is via generic programming (templates), which Java has yet to support.

I recommend C++ because it is multi-paradigm. It can be used for procedural, object-oriented, and generic programming... just like perl.

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