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Post #357,351 by mvitale 5/11/12 11:28:05 AM Reply	How polyglot are you? "Hello World" in 20 questions: https://www.infoworl...uages-quiz-188874 You got 18 of 20 correct. Your score: 90% I am Dangerously Overinformed. -Mike @MikeVitale42 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #357,355 by Another Scott 5/11/12 12:30:29 PM Reply	65% "Headline Skimmer". (Lots of guessing)
Post #357,358 by boxley 5/11/12 1:50:20 PM Reply	55% "Headline Skimmer". (Lots of guessing) Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #357,362 by SpiceWare 5/11/12 4:00:25 PM Reply	Re: 60% "Headline Skimmer". (Lots of guessing)
Post #357,379 by lincoln 5/11/12 7:42:23 PM 5/11/12 7:42:43 PM Reply	me too too many languages I've never been exposed to. "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Edited by lincoln May 11, 2012, 07:42:43 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #357,364 by malraux 5/11/12 5:35:24 PM Reply	19/20 Missed the Scala question, which I shouldn't have. Derp. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #357,365 by Another Scott 5/11/12 6:10:46 PM Reply	Dern tootin' you shouldn't have! :-)
Post #357,370 by mvitale 5/11/12 6:56:59 PM Reply	Re: 19/20 Correct Answer: Logo Your Answer: Cobol Correct Answer: Ada Your Answer: Smalltalk Go you. -Mike @MikeVitale42 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #357,373 by static 5/11/12 7:13:35 PM Reply	100%. Oh dear. I know I guessed Scala, Ruby, Haskall and probably Python, Objective C and Ada. But it was interesting to see the clues. Pascal's unique comments. Logo's unique function declaration. C++'s stream class. Forth's distinctive syntax. :-) Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #357,384 by Another Scott 5/11/12 7:54:33 PM Reply	I suspected you'd do well. Congrats! :-)
Post #357,393 by static 5/11/12 8:52:30 PM Reply	Thanks. I think... Of all the older languages they had, I have actually programmed in Fortran, COBOL, Logo and Pascal. And I knew some historical quirks of Objective C and Ada which helped me not only identify those but also identify others which weren't those. :-) I reckon they should have included SNOBOL as well, although I imagine most of their readers wouldn't know it! Wade. Just Add Story http://justaddstory.wordpress.com/
Post #357,392 by drook 5/11/12 8:50:56 PM Reply	11 with a few lucky guesses -- Drew
Post #357,497 by pwhysall 5/15/12 8:34:29 AM Reply	80% If you scored less than me (and you claim to code for a living) you're officially Thicky McThick of #1 Thick Street, Thicktown. Hey, don't look at me that way. I'm just the messenger.
Post #357,504 by boxley 5/15/12 12:19:13 PM Reply	iclrpd the official title Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #357,505 by boxley 5/15/12 12:19:56 PM Reply	Im not a coder, I am a janitor Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #357,676 by rcsteiner 5/20/12 2:52:50 AM Reply	Re: How polyglot are you? You got 17 of 20 correct. Your score: 85% Whoa. A lot of guesswork there. I'm lucky, apparently. -- -Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
Post #357,681 by Another Scott 5/20/12 9:19:17 AM Reply	Hello old timer!

How polyglot are you? - (mvitale) - (16) - May 11, 2012, 11:28:05 AM EDT

65% "Headline Skimmer". (Lots of guessing) -NT - (Another Scott) - (3) - May 11, 2012, 12:30:29 PM EDT

55% "Headline Skimmer". (Lots of guessing) -NT - (boxley) - May 11, 2012, 01:50:20 PM EDT

Re: 60% "Headline Skimmer". (Lots of guessing) -NT - (SpiceWare) - May 11, 2012, 04:00:25 PM EDT

me too - (lincoln) - May 11, 2012, 07:42:43 PM EDT

19/20 - (malraux) - (2) - May 11, 2012, 05:35:24 PM EDT

Dern tootin' you shouldn't have! :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - May 11, 2012, 06:10:46 PM EDT

Re: 19/20 - (mvitale) - May 11, 2012, 06:56:59 PM EDT

100%. Oh dear. - (static) - (2) - May 11, 2012, 07:13:35 PM EDT

I suspected you'd do well. Congrats! :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - May 11, 2012, 07:54:33 PM EDT

Thanks. I think... - (static) - May 11, 2012, 08:52:30 PM EDT

11 with a few lucky guesses -NT - (drook) - May 11, 2012, 08:50:56 PM EDT

80% - (pwhysall) - (2) - May 15, 2012, 08:34:29 AM EDT

iclrpd the official title -NT - (boxley) - May 15, 2012, 12:19:13 PM EDT

Im not a coder, I am a janitor -NT - (boxley) - May 15, 2012, 12:19:56 PM EDT

Re: How polyglot are you? - (rcsteiner) - (1) - May 20, 2012, 02:52:50 AM EDT

Hello old timer! -NT - (Another Scott) - May 20, 2012, 09:19:17 AM EDT

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