I'm writing a followup to my venerable old very-outdated What Language Do I Use? article, and I'd like a little advice. The article isn't bad, but it's clearly showing its age. The languages I covered back then were.

C
C++
C or C++ (which is better)
Assembly
Pascal
Visual Basic
Java
Authoring Tools (Flash, Director, IconAuthor, Hypercard)

And I'm trying to update things for the present. The fixes I see thus-far are. . .

- add the .NET languages with C# and VB.NET subsections. That'll kill the Visual Basic section.

- replace the "Authoring Tools" section with "Flash" because Flash won that war.

- replace Pascal with Python. Pascal seems to be much more of a niche-player nowadays than Python. Seems like most of the old Pascal language-zealots are now worshipping C# or Python, so I don't think I'll break any hearts there.

- server languages (PHP, as well as a short discussion of previously-mentioned languages that work nicely on a server, like Python and ASP.NET)


And yeah I know I'm starting a language war here, but my goal is to be pragmatic and cover technologies that are used now and in the very near future to create viable commercial products. Hence I don't think I'm gonna mention &#106avascript because it doesn't exist beyond very small projects, and Silverlight isn't really anywhere in game development either. The &#106avascript thing might change with that Apple Cocoa-gizmo that was just announced, but that's a ways down the road before we even see it, much less when we start seeing quality game-products done with it. And Silverlight might change as soon as someone ports a terrific 3D shooter to it, but that's also a ways away if ever.<br><br>Java will probably get a much heavier emphasis on its use as a server language than a client one because I haven't seen any growth in Java as a client technology, but it does seem to now have a comfortable niche for servers.<br><br><br>So I'm at this now. . .<br><br>C<br>C++ (with the "C versus C++" part in the conclusion)<br>Assembly (probably keep this very short, no real growth here)<br>Python<br>Java (emphasizing server use more than client)<br>.NET languages (specifically C# and VB.NET)<br>Flash<br>Server languages (PHP, server-side Java and Python, ASP.NET)<br><br>Any omissions?<br><br>Okay, any HUGE omissions? I know I probably oughta mention Perl and Haskell and Ruby (on or off Rails) and LUA, but you're gonna have to lobby for those.<br><br>Discuss. . .<div> </div>