Why would you use Java over C/C++

This thread :
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=689490
Brought back to mind a problem I had in the first C program I worked on -
I'd declared an array and a file pointer on the stack in a function, overwrote the end of the array by mistake, and trashed the file pointer. The file pointer was used a while after the array was overwritten - took me 2 days to work out what was happening. Array overwrites like this are just not possible in Java - that's a reason to use Java over C or C++.
Anyone else got their own scare stories like this ? Maybe someone's got a Java scare story that would make you use C ?

A C++ based bond trading system had the description database varchar field width of 60 characters. The GUI software to display this had buffers 60 characters wide. New bonds came along with widths of over 60 characters so the database field width was changed to 80 characters but nobody told us (the GUI maintenance team) about the change.
There was no real problem for about 4 days after the first long named bond was inserted. Then, at random times, the GUI application would crash. It took many many days to find the source of the problem and to fix it. The blame was laid at the door of the GUI maintenance team even though we had not written the code and we had logged the potential problem in the bug database months before but management decided that it was not a problem so should not be 'fixed'.
This literally cost millions because the traders could not be sure of their positions.
I left as soon as my contract ran out.

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