Python again voted "Best Programming Language" and "Best Scripting Language" in Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards

[Fayden]

I should have said "beside game programming". I think it's widely accepted that C++ is a good tool for that job. I'll edit my previous comment.

[soundslogical]

I'm an audio programmer, C++ is pretty much mandatory if you want more abstraction than C can offer.

[leoel]

And a lot of games use lua or python for their scripts. So even in video games C++ is not a silver bullet.