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The type of application dictates the language that I choose. For a simple data driven intranet site or simple website with minor content management pieces that an intern may have to maintain and other similar type applications, I'm using VB.NET. Much easier for a newb to handle for me than writing in some other more syntax challenging language like C++ or Java.
On Enterprise Level applications that are server based, integrations such as Managed COM+, Windows Services, etc. It's C# or C++ hands down. They are less forgiving and help prevent sloppy coding. At the end of the day, since the advent of .NET CLR coming to be, there are no differences between C#, VB.net, etc. performance wise, aside from syntax and a few other minor things like a couple of operators and so on. Writing crappy code in any language and what do you have? Crap. I've written VB.NET apps that have smoked the H E double hockey sticks out of C# and C++ apps because it was done right. In short, C#, C++ and Java force you to write better code; but that does not necessarily mean that using those languages still doesn't fall prey to GIGO
My .02
For Telephony based applications, I'm typically using CCXML, VXML, ECMA Script, Java, etc.
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Your site is best.It always help me lot.
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My all-day & all-days languages are not listed.
But as it was multiple choice I added c++ and c#, because they're the ones I sometimes use / try to keep learning
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C# is widely being used as per this survey...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages[^]
It will be good if... plus point of each language will considered to develop A total new Common Programming language that cover all the features. 
separation is easy but bonding is hard
To develop a simple & common thing, efforts will not be so simple & common. but it doesn't mean it's impossible, hope this dream come true... 
so, In this real world of versatility
language converters are helpful.
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This survey results tells most of the codeproject readers are .NET Developers.....!!!
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Agree with you
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NSIS Count? I use it quite a bit.
!define USE_NSIS "True"
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Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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I myself being a C++ developer for couple of years now, programming in C++ has always been delightful.
Plethora of open source libraries (Boost, OpenCV, ffmpeg ) make programming in C++ very interesting and you can always be certain on the fact that, anything that you could imagine can be realized.
The ubiquitous nature of C, C++ encourages developers working on different platforms to implement their software using C, C++.
Despite of all these, what amazed me is that there are only a scanty number of C, C++ developers.
I am thinking, what could be the reason for this ?
-> Do people think that programming in C, C++ is hard.
-> Does the wild spread, popularity of mobile application development is alluring people.
-> Do people think that C, C++ doesn't have future ?
Share your thoughts,
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C and C++ developers represent almost 44% of the total, larger than any other group except for C#.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I agree with you, may be we just need to wait till the poll ends, to get the actual percentage.
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Since you can vote for multiple options you can't combine two groups by adding them. You'd need per user voting data to do so; so only the CP staff can create a valid C/C++ combined number. Personally I suspect a lot of overlap between the two.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sigh. I was merely pointing out that the C and C++ groups weren't 'scanty' by any stretch of the imagination, and certainly aren't going away.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Programming in C/C++ isn't that hard. However developing a GUI application using C# is much simpler than doing the same using C/C++.
My 2 cents.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I agree with CPallini.
I like to program in C# to abstract from the lower level coding. I want to do stuff and not necessarily know how it is done, if you catch my drift
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No, it is not. Developing a *simple* wizard-driven application *might* be simpler in C#. Developing a competent GUI application is extremely hard in anything other than C (I'm not counting C++ here since besides object lifetime, RAII and using WM_NCCREATE/WM_NCDESTROY to call emulate __ctor/__dtor, C++ is not of much use since all API is Win32 GUI is C last time I checked). Lifetime in particular is more than gruesome - consider logoff/shutdown, hibernate, multiple monitors, multiple desktops etc. which have absolutely no support other than Win32.
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Oh, I see hordes of C developers programming GUI applications using WINAPI... 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Yes, there are. Look at what you are using daily, browsers, Office, media players etc. I don't know if there is a single program I am using daily that is using .NET GUI. Perhaps Visual Studio have some.
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I don't do statistics with your usage of applications. I do statistics with the questions in the Q&A, for instance. There are many many GUI .NET developers while there are rare examples of folks writing GUI stuff using C.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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That's true; there are many GUI .NET developers. While the GUIs are written in C/C++ (Win32, Qt, custom, WTL, barebones etc). So your statistics may be about developers. I was talking about GUIs.
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I think that most GUIs are written using .NET.
Many are written using C++.
Few are coded in C.
Many of the most succesfull (like, for instance, Chrome) applications are written with C++, that's true.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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But you can still access the Win32 API in C# via P/Invoke, so saying C is better because you can access Win32 isn't an advantage. And I'd certainly love to see an example where the C version is both less code written and easier to understand than the C# equivalent for any GUI application.
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Well, there are examples, but that's not the point. The point is the OS official API is C, and if one is relying to P-invoke to emulate C structures, what's the advantage of using C#?
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Abstraction. Most of the time, I neither need to know nor do I care about the details. And to be honest, I've only seen a few rather specific issues that couldn't be handled in C# (like removing the "X" button from the title bar).
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