What programming languages are used to create major applications?

How do they program things like photoshop and flash, and video games? Is it all scripted? Is it all C++? I'm just curious.

What programming languages are used to create major applications?
In part it depends on the application but major systems have been written in


Ada


Cobol


C


dBase


Eiffel


Fortran


Pascal


Visual Basic etc etc
Reply:Depends on what you need. Formely pascal and C++ were the standar, then Delphi and VC++ (the windows versions). They have the advantage of accessing directly the hardware.





However, newer programs are written in Java/.NET (VB/C#). For example, NetBeans is an IDE for JAVA writen in Java, Paint.Net is like photoshop but written in C#... and so. Java and .Net programs do not have direct access to hardware, and particularly if you seek portability, the choice is Java.
Reply:C/C++ are used mostly. If you're looking for a visual editor to make stuff then look up visual basic.