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If I'm going to be working in a research environment, I won't be using C++; probably SAS. In Oil and Gas, I would be inheriting FORTRAN and PL/I and APL. If on Wall Street, perhaps COBOL, CICS and IMS. I think by "adult" and one language you mean someone who has already carved out a career for themselves somewhere.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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"probably SAS. In Oil and Gas, I would be inheriting FORTRAN and PL/I and APL. If on Wall Street, perhaps COBOL, CICS and IMS"
Ask yourself where you will be regarding skills after you work at a job for 4-5 years using, say, Ruby (insert latest fad language). Are you going to let a know-nothing manager make that career decision for you?
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I was hoping to see some musical languages in the responses. I'm doing uController to Mac stuff these days, so C++, C, Swift, Objective C. But I also torment anyone nearby with novice 5 String Banjo, Piano, and Guitar. Although the notation can be the same, switching instruments kind of feels like language changes.
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Daily: EN, DE, PT-BR
The rest I try to restrict to the C-family, TSQL, JS, TypeScript, and the structure bunch (JSON, XML, YAML)
forging iron and new ideas
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Just English, with the occasional phrase in Spanish thrown in.
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Since I work from home alone, I mostly use Mentalese but other languages I'm also fluent in are:
Love (and Hate)
Guttural Sounds
Facial Expressions
Bodily Noises
Signs Posted in my Windows,
Cat, Dog, Deer, Turkey, Squirrel, Dove, Owl
Fist Pounding, Toe Tapping, Forehead Slapping
One-Finger, Two-Finger, Open-Palm, Closed-Fist, Thumbs-Up Hand Language
Hooting/Hollering/Laughing/Crying
C,C++,VCL,SQL,XML
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Two at most. Spanish and English at work, though soon I might have to learn Mandarin, more and more water cooler conversations are happening in that language.
As for computer languages, I try not to think in more than 2 a day. C/C++ with the occasional use of SQL should've been the end of the road, but now I couple R with SQL a lot for managing data. Python I use just for quick and dirty application development, on other days.
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I work in VB.NET mostly, though I am completely fluent in C#.
I simply prefer the syntax of VB.NET as I came out of the DBASE world in the 1980s and 1990s.
I have begun teaching myself Python and have gotten fairly far with working with it. However, the indentation scheme, which indicates when something is continued or not doesn't make much sense to me and appears to be a large negative for many developers.
Nonetheless, learning Python has been fairly straight forward and relatively easy to learn with community support that is provided.
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I know 10 languages...English and binary.
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I'd like to think 1 but my coworkers tell me gibberish isn't a real language. So, realistically? Zero.
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are not surveillance devices... !
they are just alien probes by aliens who are fascinated by the ways we, homo saps, are destroying each other, and the planet.
... they want to love us because we are the ultimate every-person-shooter game and, collectively, in their perceptions, the ultimate death-metal anthem. we are the equivalent of crack cocaine for their quantum brains floating in liquid methane.
... okay, maybe the one looked like a balloon big as 4 buses was the Martians.
cheers, bill
p.s. i can say this because in November 1966 i heard this song sung by a eucalyptus tree in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and my brain was rewired to know these things: [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I do believe "alien" engineers created us. I believe this completely.
However, I sometimes feel we are engineered biological lifeforms taking part in experiment #45734.23 and we are nearing the end of the trial phase and we have failed miserably. And.... what do scientists do with failed biological life form experiments? that's right, incinerator, start from scratch.
Instead of getting better as a species, we are only getting worse.
Now, that is some serious tin-foil hat crap for anyone to chew on. 
Oh, the UFOs getting shot down by jet fighters...
I will believe what ever my President and the Government says it is. Why would they or the media lie about any of this??
If they say it is flying elephant turds then gosh darn it, it's flying elephant turds.
modified 13-Feb-23 9:30am.
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Slacker007 wrote: what do scientists do with failed biological life form experiments? that's right, incinerator, start from scratch.
That is what the professionals that follow procedure do. The screwballs in back just pour it down the drain.
But then that raises the existential question as to whether it is now pre or post drain.
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jschell wrote: The screwballs in back just pour it down the drain.
Or flush it down the toilet - which slightly changes your existential question to whether we're in the bowl, swirling mid-flush or traveling through the sewer system.
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Slacker007 wrote: Why would they or the media lie about any of this?
That's an important question and like all theories involving conspiracies of humans (who as a rule are terrible at keeping secrets or we'd all share our passwords with certain people) motive needs to be at the forefront in terms of questioning the conspiracy.
For example, a lot of people believe the moon landing was faked.
Why? What would be the point of indoctrinating that many people, paying them off, whatever you have to do to keep all those people quiet for decades, and how would that not be more fantastic and implausible than us getting to the moon?
Hell, I think there's more motive for the intelligence community planting that theory to distract from Operation Paperclip, where we recruited Nazis to help us get there. It's at least as plausible.
Motive. Motive. Motive.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I am fairly certain that you are the ONLY person in the room that feels their Government and media are shooting straight.
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I didn't say that though.
I said it's important to question the motive behind conspiracy theories.
It's not enough to just tell stories about what you think the government is lying about.
That's easy, and goes nowhere good.
The proper way to uncover things involves critical thought, investigation and uncovering evidence.
Not storytelling
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
modified 13-Feb-23 19:52pm.
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agree.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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It's a shame that in the united states at least, investigative journalism is basically dead. There's just no money in it.
Maybe it's the dearth of real coverage of things that leads people down the path of imagining scenarios. I don't know.
The people that penned the constitution of the USA thought that the press was so important they referred to it as the 4th estate.
Let's just say it's not that now.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I agree. Objective journalism is scarce.
You can hear bits of it on (old-school reporting) BBC, but it's muted.
American journalism is far from objective.
Every reporter has an opinion as part of their reporting.
NOT real journalism.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I have a hard time with the idea of objective and unbiased.
I am a firm believer in the idea (coined by Shem the Penman) that there can be no method of human inquiry that exists apart from human activity.
Taking a step back, every single one of us has an imperfect view of reality. Everyone. Even if we had all of our facts straight we still can't fully resolve pi, just as an example.
In addition to outright errors in our views, we fill in blanks whether we mean to or not.
Ergo everything we know is tainted by bias. We can only grasp for perfect and accomplish a gross facsimile of that.
The problem I see with news, is a focus on "engagement" rather than reporting (to the best of one's ability) the facts.
And I think that's what you mean, so I'm not trying to pick at you. More it's just an observation of mine, that even if a reporter reports facts, there is going to be bias in the way that they report them, whether they intend to or not.
There's also bias in terms of what is reported on, and a lot of that is decided in corporate boardrooms.
The above wouldn't be such a problem except for there are only like (last time I checked) 6 companies that own all the major media in the United States, so that pool of boardroom execs is pretty small, and they probably all know each other.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Sorry, I do not see a distinction between unbiased and objective.
Agreed, selective journalism is a form of bias. What is chosen to be reported is a human decision. And yes, the boards are humans. This is somewhat unavoidable and perhaps AI reporting has a role here (yikes).
But what you choose to report, make that as objective as possible. The reporter is not the news. They should make that as clear as possible by keeping it as objective as possible. Subtract the human element, 1-1 = 0 bias.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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To be clear I'm not saying there's a distinction. I was saying I don't think there's such thing as truly unbiased.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Of course there are unbiased views! Those agreeing with my views are unbiased!
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I Understand. Bias has a human quality to it.
Objective is much more neutral. Like math.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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