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I'm in the USA, and essentially only have visibility to coding languages in typical use in my USA-based business. These are primarily C++, C#, and Java. Are these languages that are common here also ones that are commonly used world-wide? To help narrow down the question, I am mostly curious about the former USSR countries that have (or had at recent times) a similar technical programming prowess to what can be attributed to programming abilities in the USA. Just wondering if programming languages can be considered universal languages, or, like spoken/written communication languages, are region or country-specific.

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    Why do 'some examples' and 'list of things' questions get closed? – gnat Dec 19 '16 at 19:57
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    @gnat, this is an interesting and potentially useful question though, in my view. Can you suggest a way of editing it so it doesn't just become a "list of things" question? – David Arno Dec 19 '16 at 19:59
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    Related: programming languages used in the Soviet Union's space program (likely not currently used, so it's not a dupe) – Andres F. Dec 19 '16 at 20:14
  • Wow, apparently DRAKON (a continuation of the software used by the USSR's Buran space program) is still available. Though now it seems to be a CASE/flowchart-based frontend for mainstream languages such as Java or C++. – Andres F. Dec 19 '16 at 20:30
  • All of today's common languages aside from C, C++, and shell were developed or came into prominence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. There are languages from non-western, non-English-speaking countries, but none of those have a comparably large ecosystem. An interesting (though non-USSR) example is Ruby, which was developed in Japan and had a mostly Japanese ecosystem during its early years. – amon Dec 19 '16 at 20:44
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    @amon Nothing can touch C/C++/Java, etc, I suppose, but the French do some interesting work in languages used within and without academia, such as Prolog and OCaml (which is big in academia but also used in the trading industry). They don't even register in the radar compared to Java, of course. – Andres F. Dec 19 '16 at 20:55
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    Distribution of languages is more business-oriented than country-oriented. For instance, Prolog has been designed for Artificial Intelligence, not for French developers. – mouviciel Dec 20 '16 at 09:55
  • @amon Python, Perl, Objective-C, Object Pascal, and MATLAB are all in TIOBE's top 20 for December 2016, and all have releases predating the USSR's dissolution. (Assembly too, but that's a collection of languages.) Of course, of those, only Python originated from outside the U.S. (Netherlands), and its release only preceded the end of the USSR by a few months. – 8bittree Dec 20 '16 at 15:05

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