How many programming languages do you know of

[Gregory Gadow]

Know OF or just KNOW? I know and have used: 01. VB 02. VB.Net 03. C 04. C++ 05. C# 06. COBOL 07. RPG 08. 8086 assembly using Turbo Assembler 09. 6510 assembly hand coded (yeah, it was that easy) 10. Fortran 11. VAX VMS 12. IBM JCL 13. Pascal 14. Delphi 15. Javascript 16. DOS / MS batch language 17. CP/M 18. dBase 19. SQL 20. Var'aq (yes, I have actually programmed in Klingon) Beyond those, I know, but have not used in actual code, maybe another score including APL, Forth, LISP and LOLCode. Not counting the two I designed but never implemented, TinyLife and Zed. Yeah, I'm an old computer geek.

[Wjousts]

Norm .net wrote:

great minds think a like...

...But fools rarely differ. (as my Dad used to say)

[Lost User]

You should be sitting at a back office, never to be seen by clients at all. :-\ :~ :-O

I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

[Bert Mitton]

Gregory.Gadow wrote:

20. Var'aq (yes, I have actually programmed in Klingon)

I'll have to check this out when I get home.

[BobJanova]

Know enough to write a decent system in? C (with reference book to hand, at least), Delphi, Java, C#, APL, PHP/mySQL, Javascript, ActionScript (Flash). Have a passing knowledge and can make sense of? VB, Perl, Pascal, Matlab and probably several others I'm forgetting at the moment. But as (I think it was) Nagy said, it's more about having the skills to pick up languages and understand code patterns. The actual language is fairly irrelevant. As long as you know at least one well enough to do the job that pays for your CP time, that's enough ;)

[Gary Wheeler]

I've used FORTRAN, IBM 370 assembly, BASIC, PL/I, 8085 assembly, 6809 assembly, PDP-11 assembly, VAX/VMS DCL, C, 80x86 assembly, LISP, Ada, C++, Microchip PIC assembly, .BATch, VBscript, and C#. Those are the ones I worked with long enough that I still vaguely remember them. I currently 'know' and use C++, C#, VBscript, .BATch, and PIC assembly. What do I win?

Software Zen: delete this;

[Gary Wheeler]

Gregory.Gadow wrote:

12. IBM JCL

The first rule of IBM JCL is you don't admit you know IBM JCL. The second rule of IBM JCL is you don't admit you know IBM JCL. // DD SYSINPUT *

Software Zen: delete this;

[ian dennis 0]

The full quote is "Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ"

[ian dennis 0]

Oops. Sorry.

[Gregory Gadow]

Here ya go: http://www.reocities.com/connorbd/varaq/index.html[^] The compiler I worked with was a Perl implementation, but it was functional.

[PIEBALDconsult]

Gregory.Gadow wrote:

11. VAX VMS

Ummm... that's an operating system (the best ever). Perhaps you mean Macro 11? The assembly language for VAX? (I had a semester of it in college.)

[Rob Grainger]

The complete saying is "Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ". Generally, people omit the second part for some strange reason.

[Rob Grainger]

I thought you meant you were addicted to Lemmings[^]

[Rob Grainger]

Judging by the number of similar responses, I guess I'm firmly in the latter camp. :(

[Rob Grainger]

and option 2 was?

[Jonas Hammarberg]

More than I care to remember ...

[ii_noname_ii]

lol.. The answer to everything... MyNumLanguages=(SELECT MAX(language_count) FROM Users)+1 Yay, I win.

[Sascha Atrops]

I know one which is C++. I am using it since 1994 and I am still discovering new potentialities. I was recruited as a C#/C++ (this order) developer, but I haven't written C# about at least one year. Additionally I wrote code in several basics, assembler on several plattforms, Bash, Delphi, Fortran, I was a Java-developer, JavaScript, a Lisp-like-language, Pascal, Prolog, Python, Perl, PHP, SQL. I had a look at Haskell, Lisp, Ruby, Matlab, Labview and other languages which were proclaimed as the future. Today I prefer C++ for almost everything. I rewrite a big php website with C++. That's not because of C++ is the best thinkable language - it's just because I don't know something else which is at least half that good.

[S Houghtelin]

Rob Grainger wrote:

people omit the second part for some strange reason

Probably to assure that the audience does not associate you with the less desired population but more numerous portion of the latter half. :) My dad had an interesting variant that went “Great minds think alike, getting them to agree on anything is the difficult part.”

It was broke, so I fixed it.

[Lost User]

Exactly!