Top programming languages (according to the people who care to read IEEE Spectrum):
1) LabVIEW 2) C 3) Verilog 4) Assembler (the one the chip vendor gave you!) 5) Perl for everything that can't be kludged in some horrible way using one of the above
Anyone who advocates for another language is not a REAL ENGINEERTM and their opinion is not worthy of notice.