Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/02/07 18:29

deko wrote:

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

Assuming you're talking about desktop/GUI programming (which is what I
surmised from your intro) then C/C++ are far and away the most popular
languages for programming on Linux. All the major GUI software is written
in one of those, including X11, GNOME, KDE, Evolution, Mozilla,
OpenOffice.org, etc, etc.

That said, I've never particularly enjoyed programming in either C or C++
myself. For Linux GUI programming, I'd personally recommend Perl, which
has decent GUI bindings for a variety of widget sets, including GTK.

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