How many programming languages do you know of

[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!

[Gregory Gadow]

It has been almost 25 years, but I recall VMS (back before it had a GUI) as a batch language, similar to MS-DOS and CP/M.

[MorpheusQ]

Drop Table Users;commit; Now I Win :)

[JBoyer11]

I'm still a newbie at programming but these are the languages I have written or at least attempted to learn: 1. C# (currently my day-to-day language) 2. VB 3. Java (been awhile, a bit rusty but I can still read it and comprehend it fine) 4. Javascript 5. x86 Assembly 6. Ruby (currently learning now, just picked up the pick ax book) 7. F# (just started learning) I've dabbled in C and C++ but haven't really written any meaningful programs in them.

[ARBebopKid]

42 :)

[Mark Harrington]

Out of all of those responses to your initial question there is not one actual answer. ha ha I was actually curious to see how many languages people actually knew and then perhaps a side discussion of what actually constitutes a language.

Mark Harrington "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG" --Bill Gates

[TNCaver]

I've programmed in: MS Assembly DOS Batch Fortran GW-Basic, QuickBasic, PowerBasic, VB6, VBScript, ASP (classic), VB.NET C, C++, C# Java JavaScript PHP SQL (ANSI, T-SQL, PL/SQL) TCL (the language that powered some older credit card terminals by VeriFone) Direct machine code - in school I wrote two small programs for the PDP-11, one of which I entered one instruction at a time by flipping switches, the other on punched tape