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I missed a lot of easy ones too. At some point you get bored and just click Forfeit without paying too much attention.

And I felt sick that I got as high as 25% of them. I think it is better to know just a few of them very well. However the ones I use everyday I got immediately ...

What is interesting is so many languages look like C or Lisp or ML or its variants.

Heh. I've never used Delphi and I got that one. Thank goodness for learning Pascal in high school, I guess. (And reading somewhere that Delphi is related.)

I missed Erlang, even though I have a copy of Programming Erlang somewhere. Guess it didn't take.

I tried guessing Pascal and Modula and a few more for Delphi. I was thinking to myself "what other languages look like Pascal" and in the end gave up. Felt really dumb then when it turned out to be Delphi.

The other one where this happened was F#. I tried OCaml and Snandard ML and was thinking "this HAS to be OCaml..." and again, felt silly for not thinking of F#.

I got Standard ML confused with F#, then when I saw F# I got it right. When I restarted the thing, hoping to get a better score, I thought it was Standard ML... gave up, and found out it was F#.

Boy am I smart.