system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If your goal was to be a well-rounded programmer, and were granted perfect fluency in 5 languages, but only those 5. Which would you pick?

You are not able to read any different languages from these 5, but can read derivative languages as much as you would be able to anyway (i.e. PHP -> Hack, and vice versa) akin to real life

*You cannot, however, write in the languages that you can read*
gpt
You can read derivative languages? Cool.

 * C
 * Perl
 * Classical LISP
 * ML
 * Smalltalk

And that covers basically every language as a derivative, as long as nobody shows up with COBOL or Forth code.