Ask YC: So how many Development Technologies do you Know?

[DanielBMarkham]

Recently I stuck my foot in it when I observed that I know 8 out of the 10 most popular programming languages. Dude, most everybody here can say that! was the response.

So is that true? How many technologies do you know? And to count, you need to have developed more than two systems that went into production and has real, live users.

If you know more than 2 or 3 of these technologies, speak out! You can help make me look like an idiot. (Not that I need help, most days!)

[paulgb]

I think it was just a matter of you and cellis having a different definition of what it means to know a language. It seems to me that if you code in enough languages that you are running out of fingers to count them on, chances are you can pick up another language (especially a mainstream one) quite quickly.

If you really want to impress Hacker News readers, learn the ten least popular languages :P.

[DanielBMarkham → paulgb]

I don't think I'm looking to impress, but I'm a hotshot at heart just like every other hacker I know. My outward reason was to make sure I'm not getting run over on the information superhighway. If something like Visual Pig Latin would have come up on the list, there would have been trouble! I'm an old guy who's supposed to be able to teach this stuff -- I'd better know where the heck the market is at, that's all.

Who me? A guy who wants to rule space, time, and the all of the alternate universes? Looking to impress somebody? Say it ain't so! I just can't believe it.

[paulgb → DanielBMarkham]

I wasn't trying to accuse you of trying to impress people, I was just attempting a joke about how people here are turned off by popular/blub languages.

[german]

I'll ask another question. How many Languages do you speak?

I speak Spanish, English and Portuguese.

[nextmoveone → german]

lol...Spanish, English and really shitty German.

[nextmoveone]

i know 4.

[DanielBMarkham → nextmoveone]

thanks