What programming languages can one use to develop iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (iOS) applications?

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What programming languages can one use to develop iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (iOS) applications?

Also are there plans in the future to expand the amount of programm

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What programming languages can one use to develop iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (iOs) applications?

Ruby, Python, Lua, Scheme, Lisp, Smalltalk, C#, Haskell, ActionScript, JavaScript, Objective-C, C++, C. That's just the ones that pop into my head right now. I'm sure there's hundreds if not thousands of others. (E.g. there's no reason why you couldn't use any .NET language with MonoTouch, i.e. VB.NET, F#, Nemerle, Boo, Cobra, ...)

Also are there plans in the future to expand the amount of programming languages that iOs will support?

Sure. Pretty much every programming language community on this planet is currently working on getting their language to run on iOS.

Also, a lot of people are working on programming languages specifically designed for touch devices such as iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, e.g. Phil Mercurio's Thyrd language.