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C++

Mainly because its maturity, the C++ language features many third party libraries. Many of them are however proprietary, like Roguewave class libraries. Open source networking libraries however abound--chief among them being the W3C Libwww, the HTTP reference implementation. However, the only non-proprietary architecture for business-level components is the CORBA component architecture, provided by open source CORBA implementations like MICO and TAO.
C++ support for generic programming (e.g. templates) means that a function (or class) may be programmed using parameterised types. The compiler will then be in charge of substituting the generic type with the actual type passed to the function. Mainly because of my experience with the language, C++/CORBA was the initial, a prori solution.