I'm being hyperbolic when I say "hello world and loops", and I'll happily admit to being wrong if she turned out to be really good, which like I said before is only possible if she's a freak of nature. But then the likelihood and all pieces falling in place are very low. Possible? Sure. Likely? No.
The irony here that I'm talking about (which I thought people will take more lightly) is that it's very common for juniors to make a laundry list of programming languages "they know", but then "knowing" a language in reality doesn't mean anything. And from my experience, people who make such laundry lists are the worst of the worst.
And to put things in perspective, besides my serious programming, I've been doing Python scripting as a helper for over a decade, yet I don't think I'm an expert in Python, but I "know" python... whatever the hell that means... because I don't believe I'm qualified to run Python in serious production because it's more vulnerable to runtime bugs (compared to compiled languages), and as an expert in programming I recognize that. Not recognizing that every language has its niche problems is what makes juniors juniors.
No, sorry, prove you are an "expert in programming". You won't read her stackoverflow page or make the effort to read and judge any of the evidence you have been sent on the matter, so I will extend no courtesy to you as far as trusting your qualifications. Prove it.
As far as I'm concerned you are a know-nothing troll trying to sound smart and put people down. Prove otherwise.
I never claimed to be an expert in 5 languages. I even concede on being an expert in Python like I said in another comment despite using it for casual scripting for a decade. Grow up. This isn't personal.
I never accused you of claiming to be an expert in 5 languages without evidence. I accused you of claiming to be an expert in programming ("...and as an expert in programming I recognize that.") Without proof. Why does she need proof for her claim and you don't for yours? Your claim seems bigger, claiming to be an expert in the whole of programming.
Because claiming to know 5 languages is nuts. Claiming to be an expert programmer is acceptable. Like I said in my other comment.
If you tell me you have a cat in your garage, I'd believe you. If you told me you have a lion in your garage I'd be skeptical and will need evidence. If you tell me you have a dragon in your garage, well, we're back at Carl Sagan's "there's a dragon in my garage". The original claim of laundry list was ridiculous.
You don't seem to understand what "knowing" a language means, and this is a trick. I "know" 50 languages, but I'm an expert only in two. For both those two, not only I worked with them for years, but I watched conferences, read standards, contributed to public repos, etc. That's the difference. Stop using the word "know". It doesn't mean shit.
And btw, your opinion only means that you've been coding for less than a decade. Let me guess, you're around 26 years old, and been coding 5 years? Wild guess, but this is what you sound like.