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With over 300 votes counted, the results show PHP leading the way with almost 30% of the vote, followed by Java (19%), JavaScript (13%), ColdFusion (10%), C# (8%), and Ruby (7%). To me these results are not at all surprising as PHP still dominates the world of client/server applications built on HTML/AJAX and JavaScript is obviously the power behind AJAX. Java and ColdFusion are still a solid choice for middleware to supply data to RIA, especially RIA built on the Flash Player.
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Does it even make sense to put Javascript in a same poll with PHP, Java, Ruby and CF?
@srirangan
Why not? Javascript is just as much a programming language as any of the others. The poll was for programming languages in general, not just for server-side languages. It just stands out because there's not much competition for client-side languages.
"Does it even make sense to put Javascript in a same poll with PHP, Java, Ruby and CF?"
@Srirangan: Javascript is just as much a programming language as the other ones. Why wouldn't you put it in there?
- Rodney, consultant for Free Government Grants
Travis/Rodney, Isn't Javascript client side while the rest on the poll were server side technologies?
@Srirangan
ActionScript, which is what spurred the poll question is also a client side language. So, there is no reason why JavaScript should not have been included. The only difference between JavaScript and ActionScript is that JavaScript runs in the browser client side, while ActionScript runs in the Flash Player client side.