Tools

C++:

1979 was a seminal year: Sugar Hill Gang recorded Rappers Delight for the hip hop community and Bell Labs started C++ for the programming community; C++ is an extremely powerful language in the tools of the right people, 30 years is a long time in IT and it’s documentation, user base and available code to work from is amazing

PHP

it’s the right choice for most web applications for these reasons

  • Millions of developers
  • Large library of tested codebase
  • Continually supported by a large, well organised benevolent community
  • 100 non commercial, means you won’t ever pay a cent on top of your software

ECMA script

The mother of the javascript/actionscript family