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[windtalker]

Just curious. I currently know VB.NET and PHP, and is about a intermediate level with both.

[nutballs]

Know, or have known? Known, lots. Know php and classic asp. Technically though, those are scripting languages

[perkiset]

I think I've forgotten more languages and dialects than most people ever learn.

But I am currently fluent in JS, PHP and MySQL procedural language. Can still fight my way through C/C++ and have about 200K lines in Object Pascal (from 2000-2003) that is still in production and I maintain. Have a book on Objective C but I hate looking at it.

[Phaëton]

Logo, Atari Basic, Microsoft Basic, Quick Basic, Action! for atari, Turbo Pascal,
 Modula-2, Object Pascal, Delphi, C++(yuk)
Visual Basic/ASP.net, Little Coldusion, Little Javascript, Little Actionscript,
  MS and MySql, and PHP.

None all that great.. lol.

[nop_90]

only really 2 types of languages
1) Procedural
2) Functional

C++,C,Pascal, and majority of main stream languages are Procedural

Lisp,Scheme,Erlang and Prolog come from the functional

Once u know one of each the rest are all the same

[kurdt]

I know A LOT of languages... I can write PHP & javascript

[vsloathe]

In order of fluency:

C
Python
bash script
PHP
Ruby
Perl
Javascript
Java

bunch of others I don't maintain, like ADA, AutoItScript, etc. I can grok Lisp, Scheme, and Smalltalk.

[isthisthingon]

My home language is C++ and it's where I've spent most of my time in.  But here's a list of what I can remember from the past till now: C, various Basics, VB5/6, VB.NET, C#, various dBases like dBase, Clipper, McMax, 4'th Dimmension, Paradox, transact SQL on most major RDBMSs, some assembly, Javascript, some Java, Python (barely), Ruby (barely), PHP (barely), Flex (barely) and Apex/Visualforce (Force.com) is my current strong suit. 

POWER BUILDER BITCHES!  Just kidding.  It was way too complicated

@Objective C

Damn Apple always winds up hitting the future of technology right on the nose.  No, it's not Objective C per se.  But the brains involved in NeXTSTEP had the right idea, imo.  Objective C has a conceptually beautiful flow that is non-blocking, evented AND strongly/statically typed.  This language is a natural fit for reactor patterns that produce far more scalable architectures than multi-threading could ever hope to produce. 

Related slideshow: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23801896/Node-js-JSConf-2009
Reactor pattern: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/reactor-siemens.pdf

Objective C is ugly as hell because it's a superset of C.  Anything you can compile in C will compile in Objective C.  And have you seen what you can compile in C?    However, the right idea has to do with passing messages through your object hierarchy as opposed to pointing to an execution address and saying "do it now!"  Smalltalk was like this too.  The deal is that it's far more scalable to never (or hardly ever) wait for anything to finish before proceeding on to the next "request" for something to happen.  This can be accomplished with most languages but is natural communication for the likes of Objective C. 

Although this may sound like technobabble, as it turns out it's one of the core scaling approaches to cloud computing.  You can do this in Java, Ruby, you name it.  But I predict languages like Objective C will dominate in the future because of this natural fit