My language list is probably three times that Ed, yet I still have zero experience in 80% of the current languages and frameworks!  *Sigh...* 
 
Good times!
 
:-)
 

craigb
If this was a game of COBOL one-upsmanship, I do believe I would win!  'Cause I think I am the ONLY geek in the world who has ever created a fully operational, full-screen editor coded entirely in...  COBOL!!!
 
Despite my many (obvious) objections, I had a programming manager that insisted I write a full-screen editor for our internal users in COBOL where we could allow or disallow certain features (the "real" issue with the DEC EVE and EDT editors we already had).  Yes, I ended up doing it and, yes, it DID work (albeit slow as snot).  No idea why he was so stuck on COBOL, probably THE worst language he could have picked for that task!
 
So many of the other programmers were laughing at my having to do the project that word got up to the VP of IT and, when he walked into one of the Team Leader's offices and saw a code printout of it being used as wallpaper (it WAS very pretty), he investigated and we went with my original suggestion (using EVE with available modifications).
 
I'm still a little glad that he saw it after I had it finished and working though! 
 
That said, I also programmed the fuzzy logic used to sync up cellular call records created by a single call as a user was handed off from tower to tower in COBOL.  There were two main issues:  One, we're talking about MILLIONS of call records (with over 2 BILLION in the Los Angeles area alone - the largest cellular market in the U.S.) and, two, the time stamps on all towers were always a little bit different.

Interesting.  I was the director over development of CS and billing apps for a top tier cell company in my last corp gig.
 

Small world in deed!  
 
And I used to work with a Bob (Durgan) at the defense contractor who was also a sub-mariner.  In fact, due to that, is how I learned about sleep cycles which has helped me tremendously over the years.
 
For over seven years I was a consultant to Verizon Wireless (first through Anderson Consulting, who's now Accenture, and then direct).  I did a LOT of work on their billing systems during that time (ending in the conversion of said system to one of their others which was maintained in another state).  I also was both the tech lead and project lead for a couple of their new products (like 1xRTT, the first generation Internet access).

I wrote a song once. Does that count?

bapu
I wrote a song once. Does that count?

Yes.  Once.

craigb
Small world in deed!  
 
And I used to work with a Bob (Durgan) at the defense contractor who was also a sub-mariner.  In fact, due to that, is how I learned about sleep cycles which has helped me tremendously over the years.
 
For over seven years I was a consultant to Verizon Wireless (first through Anderson Consulting, who's now Accenture, and then direct).  I did a LOT of work on their billing systems during that time (ending in the conversion of said system to one of their others which was maintained in another state).  I also was both the tech lead and project lead for a couple of their new products (like 1xRTT, the first generation Internet access).

Wow.  A million years ago we adopted and adapted AC's Method 1.  We took a highly modified version of Amdocs system as a baseline and went from there.  I left 11+ years ago when wireless data was just heating up.  I had many, many long nights dealing with conversions for acquired markets.
 
One of the first things I did when I joined that company was to write an interface to the billing system that would perform automated provisioning in the switches.  Six regional CS data systems to 22 switching centers.  IIRC (it was the early 90s), that was my last pure C project.
 
I remember doing some interesting collabs with other carriers.  The coolest was with Docomo Japan.  We shared our CDMA performance calcs with them in exchange for a piece of a small PCS concern we both held minor interest in.  I was running tech support in our NetOps center at the time.
 
I remember building out N CA for an independent partnership.  We had I-5 from Mt Shasta to the OR border, charging $3 + $1/min.  I remember sitting in a switch room in the middle of nowhere at midnight.  15 seconds after the carrier channels went hot, calls started going thru.  Cellular was wild times!!
 
Over on the coast a big quake took out a bunch comms and ****ed up a couple of mountain towns.  I was driving mountain top to mountain top taking radios from one cell to another to build capacity for the first responders, while the sales were handing out cell phones to them gratis.  We got a ton of police and fire contracts after that.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Cape_Mendocino_earthquakes
 
 

In keeping with the various aspects of this thread, the guy below is a friend of mine who's a very accomplished guitarist (8-string!) and vocalist.  His range is from awesome Progressive Metal to what's below (and I own one album from each genre!).
 

 
So, how does it tie into this thread?  Well, he's ALSO the CTO for an artificial intelligence company!  You may notice his voice in this video too.
 

No Python fans here then? I learned it a few years ago and was amazed at how quick and easy it is. I found it really intuitive and elegant. As an example, the little app I wrote for my business in C (which basically just extracts info from calendars and uses it to calculate a table of info I use to create my invoices), consists of 3 C files and 2 header files, probably around 250 lines of code in the C files and implements a linked list of linked lists. Tiny? Yes. But consider that when I went back and rewrote it in Python as an experiment, it was something like 25 lines of code in total. For just getting something simple up and running in a hurry, nothing beats it!
 

I know how to forget the syntax in I forget how many languages.

sharke
No Python fans here then? I learned it a few years ago and was amazed at how quick and easy it is. I found it really intuitive and elegant. As an example, the little app I wrote for my business in C (which basically just extracts info from calendars and uses it to calculate a table of info I use to create my invoices), consists of 3 C files and 2 header files, probably around 250 lines of code in the C files and implements a linked list of linked lists. Tiny? Yes. But consider that when I went back and rewrote it in Python as an experiment, it was something like 25 lines of code in total. For just getting something simple up and running in a hurry, nothing beats it!
 

My ex-roommate had to take Python as a course requirement.  He doesn't like programming at all so I helped him with his assignments (which I thought were fun much to his annoyance).  I had never seen the language before and, obviously, didn't go to the classes, but using a few minutes to browse his reference book (and knowing what to look for) I was able to help him code his way to an "A" in that class.  So I'd have to agree with you that it's a pretty darn easy and elegant language!
 
It sure beats trying to keep track of things like C++'s triple dereferenced pointers!  (***example)
 
I'm just about to upgrade to Visual Studio 2016, I wonder if it has native support for Python...