It all depends on what I want to do. For quick hacks, I prefer a language that supports that: perl or python (since that's the two I know well enough). When wr

It all depends on what I want to do. For quick hacks, I prefer a language that supports that: perl or python (since that's the two I know well enough). When writing programs to a very limited platform, I'd rather use something I can control much better, which is most often C. Other times, I don't really have a choice: if I'm writing a web application, there's not much else than JavaScript that I can use on the client side (assuming I want to be reasonably portable, and don't want to use flash). I tend to use whatever language fits the job at hand best, since they all have stronger and weaker areas.