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I think that is better to support controls like activex ones and then you can do almost anything.
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Java going down in popularity... nice 
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This has been a Microsoft site. If you ask same question in a predominately Java site like Javaranch you will see different results.
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right 
latest computer languages ranking from TIOBE:
1. java
2. C
3. C++
4. PHP
5. (Visual) BASIC
6. Python
7. C#
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"The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings"
Well that's not a direct poll like in here, I don't think you can take the skilled engineers number as a measure, maybe the engineers specializes in different languages, or maybe they are changing their mind lol, courses well the cheaper the more isn't it? and who said this is a Microsoft site? codeplex is
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chaosgeorge wrote: who said this is a Microsoft site?
It was set up originally as a site for Microsoft-centric developers. It is only recently that it has branded itself more generically. But most members are still Microsoft-centric. That's why you'll see a lot of praise of C# and condemnation of Java for example.
Kevin
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Really? well I'm not kind of old codeproject user (about 2 years I think) and did not know that lol I wonder how many users have joined since the convergence and knows that, anyway I have seen both sided people here
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ChdeProject was around for over 10 years I think... so you're relatively new
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Yes I said I'm not kind of old I'm very new indeed
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chaosgeorge wrote: I have seen both sided people here
Sure, you will. But the site is MS-centric nevertheless. But anyone is free to join and evangelise other technologies (though not advertise products as such). I'm MS-centric myself. Many are that way simply because it pays the bills and it is difficult to get into something completely different and still get paid for it. Employers are only ever interested in previous commercial experience. 
However, I do at least like to keep a cursory awareness of other technologies. I had a brief look at Scala recently. I've played a bit with Ruby and Python. It's good to have different perspectives even if you do not end up going in those directions.
Kevin
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Interesting you say that because I have seen so much more interested people in PHP and MySQL because they are "cheap" (both developers and customers)  but I hate people that just goes for one technology because it's the mood in the world and pays the bills, for me even if Microsoft don't pay all the bills I'll stay supporting their philosophy because I'm a pasionate of technology and I like the Microsoft way, I think if people in IT have a more firm conviction of what they are doing is their passion (as in any other career) there would me more technologies that innovate and enterprises that moves forward and not backward
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LOL btw C in second place? comon C is like 20 years old so of course that is the winner in search engines, and maybe search engines take the C# results as C results too lol
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Common C is more like 40 years old. Aside from maintaining old Unix code I'm not sure it's used that much for new project development. If you are in that camp probably more C++.
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Windows API is 90% (or more) in C. So C or C++, you deal with C. C++ are mostly wrappers.
Nuclear launch detected
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Speaking of search engines - I find it frustrating that Google's keyword 'suggestions' always equate c# with c searches 
But true, even after all this time C still has its place and isn't likely to disappear. (think cross-platform compilation for embedded systems) Its as close as many coders prefer to get to assembly - under the hood, C is little more than just a fancy macro-assembler. If C#/VS hadn't made it so much easier to do Windows development, I'd still be stuck in the 80's writing plain old C code
Matt McKinney
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Java isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Those who code in Java do so for a good reason, and those who don't code in Java don't care anyway. Whatever pays the bills (Gates), right?
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