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Jason C. McDonald

I was going to say, "define know"...

I'm an expert in Python and C++, and formerly in ActionScript 3.0. Of course, "expert" is a hard term to pin down: what I mean is, my code in these languages is clean, idiomatic, and efficient, and I have a solid grasp of the underlying language patterns and principles. (Pluralsight confirmed, at least on the first two, so that's something.)

I'm able to write good code in C, HTML, CSS, and Bash. I used to be at this skill level with Visual Basic .NET and VBScript, but I haven't used either in years.

I'm reasonably comfortable messing about in Java, SQL, Haskell, X86 Assembly, and FORTRAN.

So, only counting actual programming languages, I "know" 14.