From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 11:57:31 MST
> (Avatar Polymorph <avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com>):
> Does anyone know about the maximum number of languages that can be learnt?
> The record that was quoted in one source was about 60, though it didn't
> specify whether it was conversational (usually about 300 words, mostly
> hunter-gatherer related) only.
>
> Secondarily, does anyone know what the maximum number of computer languages
> able to be learnt by one person might be?
Computer languages are an order of magnitude simpler. As far as human
languages go, I've tried to learn many, but have never been very successful.
I am fluent only in English and competent in Spanish, but never really
accomplished anything else.
Programming languages, on the other hand, are nothing at all: I've
programmed in 6502 and x86 assembly, BASIC, Forth, Fortran, Pascal,
C, Eiffel, Perl, Python, Java, PHP, and probably a few I've forgotten
about just now, and learning a new one is pretty trivial.
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