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Depends. Mostly between 2 and 5 
Dutch, English, French, Spanish (once in a while), Japanese (martial arts). Today I had to find translation for German
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C#, VB (kill it with fire), JS (also kill it with fire), TS (oh look, something terrible with types added on top), PowerShell, the occasional dab of Pyhton.
If someone could hurry along and mature WASM, that would be nice.
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3 human languages
3 computer languages
trying to get more computer languages
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C#, PHP, javascript
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I suspect that the OP, Slow Eddie, really posted this question to see how many would interpret it as "natural", human languages, how many would consider programming languages, and how many would not be sure what was the intention behind the question.
He sure got a fascinating mix of answers!
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Human: English.
Computer:
VB6, VB.Net, C#, SQL.
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Daily Basis - 5 (English, PHP, JS, HTML5/CSS, SQL) Bumping that out to a week adds C# & VB.net.
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Two natural languages on a daily basis, but only one computer language, C++. I hold two masters degrees, one in computer science and the other (bifag) in language psychology. So let me say this. From my viewpoint, learning several languages for real as an adult is exceedingly hard, bordering impossible. Our brains have long since been pruned mostly out of that capability. This means learning a fad computer language owned by a few gurus or even a large corp, that will he gone in a few years, is a ridiculous approach.
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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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