[jbrechtel]

Neither my intuition nor experience lead me to the same conclusion as you.

My intuition says that complex algorithms get even more advantage from more expressive languages. Java and C++ are usually not counted among the more expressive languages.

My experience on two* different projects in very complex domains...one where we used Java and another Clojure was that the Clojure code was more approachable and modeled the domain in an easier to understand way.

Just my 2 cents.

* One project was in the field of power systems, modeling and predicting power flow through the distribution end a power network.

* The other project was doing personalized treatment recommendations based on analysis of genetic data.