In software development I'm a bit of a polyglot. Here is a short list C# (weapon of choice), VB.Net, XML, SQL, CSS, PHP, HTML, and Javascript. I've been avoiding PHP because I want to. And now I'm working a lot in Javascript. Using Javascript is quickly becoming a fav. It wasn't long ago that the tools were mediocre at best, and debugging it was a nightmare. Between browser and platform incompatibilities I spent a lot of time starring at a screen looking for a bug that only occurs on a specific version of IE6 running on windows2000/XP SP#. If you wanted to do any serious productive work than staying in the compiled languages was the way to go, unless you needed another dropdown menu.
That's why I'm looking forward to the next version of Visual Studio 2008. I have the beta installed and I've been using it lightly. Javascript support was a good start in 2005 but the reflection works so much better on this version. 2005 would usually meet me 33% with the intellitype. 2008 is probably 50-75% there. And lots of lovely new features (note: I'm still not convinced Silverlight is going to approach Flash in the immediate future, but it will put a fire under Adobe's ass :-P)
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