R is quite specialised though, whereas most (or all) of the others are general purpose.

Cannot argue much about this. There are however several arguments for including R in the polls: it is (although specific) a veritable programming language (1), it has a continuously growing community (2), and it is often perceived as a quality open-source package, that threatens proprietary packages, like SAS, for example (3).

It would be an idea to create a "Statistical package" poll, but it would always, I imagine, have one winner. And then, would the GUI that exist as R modules or are built on top of it fit this poll?

The rant appart, I feel it would be nice if there was some poll where people had R as a voting option.
Liviu

Python, because I can actually use it.
Obviously all those polls are highly subjective. How could you possibly compare C with PHP!

you can't compair c with php. Though their syntax is a bit similar... They're used for 2 different things.

I was going to vote C, since it is my favourite language. But best of 2007? I think the award deserves to go to a language that has made a bit more of a splash. Gonna go with Java. Java 6, released last year, really added a whack load of cool features, several of which have already found a home in my projects.

Voted Haskell but it is likely that Lua is the second one, well, the third if we count on C

C is the KING for everytime!!
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pascal and smalltalk, but i am not a programmer ..so i will not vote

There should certainly be [G]awk in this poll!

The worlds most reliable programming language didn't even make the list. What are we voting on? Popularity?

Allow me to ask: What are those languages? Haskell IMHO is barely known and had been proposed as a base for a secure kernel (thinking from its very design...)

However you have made a very good question. Popularity and quality tend to be confused, and that's the worse thing that could ever happen: programmers talking business-babble.

What's about shell?

What language is that? Assembly?

Certainly not. Assembly has no protective features whatsoever. Ada is the worlds single most reliable language.

Ok, so you want Ada to be added to the poll?