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What are the most important languages in the future of Windows Development? [Edit]

Survey period: 15 Sep 2003 to 21 Sep 2003

C# is still the Bright Young Thing, XML still sexy, and C++ the workhorse. Which language(s) (or meta language) do you think will be the most important to you in the future?

Option	Votes	%
C++ (with or without Managed Extensions)	1,175	57.65
C#	1,110	54.47
VB.NET	269	13.20
XML (inc. XSLT, XSL, DTDs, XSD, XPath, XQuery, and SOAP)	775	38.03
Javascript / DHTML	156	7.65
Java	241	11.83
SQL	490	24.04
Perl	56	2.75
Other	68	3.34
Responses	2,038
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%

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