Posted by deko on 03/02/07 00:14

For building Windows desktop apps, the clear favorite is C#. But my clients
can't afford to buy Microsoft products. So I need to develop software for Linux
users and web applications.

In the open source world, what is the programmer's language of choice?

Judging by the number of members in each of these
http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Open_Source/ user
groups, it looks like the top 3 open source languages are:

1. Java
2. PHP
3. Perl

Does this mean Java is the open source language of choice? Are Java apps
compiled, or is it an interpreted language?

What about C and C++?

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