Ok Which was very your first programming language?

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BASIC on a TRS-80 at the back of the Math classroom in High School - 1980. Soon got my own TRS-80 Color Computer. Shortly thereafter got frustrated at the limits of 4K (yeah 4096) bytes of RAM - couldn't write very interesting games with 4K. Began poking Motorola 6809 instruction into memory. Imagine my joy upon discovering there was something called "Assembly Language". Ah well, memory lane...

horia67

Fortran

BrainiacV

A friend tried to start me off "the right way" by throwing a book on DEC PDP-8/I assembler programming at me. I struggled for a couple weeks trying to get my head around accumulator registers, flags and address space. A friend of his said, "Psst, Wanna write a program?" And showed me how to write a one line program in FOCAL-8. After seeing it I screamed, "THAT'S IT? That's all I have to do?" and I was off to the races. I quickly ran into the limits of FOCAL and moved to BASIC (back when you had to use the LET command to do assignments). But I always remembered that the assembler and machine code were behind it all and eventually wrote all sorts of utilities for the TSS-8/I operating system in PALD-8. After that it was FORTRAN and COBOL.

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Robert Valska

mine was MAD Michigan Algorithm Decoder and then FORTRAN

Tom Sacramento

Honeywell 6000 GMAP and IBM FORTRAN IV - 1979.

RefugeeFromSlashDot

Whatever version of BASIC was used on the GE, yes General Electric made computers at one time, Timesharing service in 1970. When I went on to University it was IBM 360 Assembler, COBOL, and PL/I.

CHLane

IBM 370 Assembler, also known as BAL (mainframe land) for an online system running under ACP/TPF. ACP stands for Airline Control Program, or Almost a Control Program as we all called it. This was in '81.

glenn horton freemanco com

FORTRAN IV, in the IVth form at a private school in Delaware, where we students who were taking the class were granted hands-on, unsupervised access, punching our cards, loading compilers, AFIT subroutines in this air-conditioned room in the basement. The best lesson was discovering that the world didn't end when I made the machine crash (the first time was an accident, honest!), and then demonstrated that fact to my friends. Repeatedly - that flashing red button was pretty cool! (and nobody outside the room was the wiser). That empowering discovery (crash, restart) transformed the great and powerful OZ (aka IBM 360) into a simple man behind the curtain ("pay no attention..."), and ever since, no machine has ever intimidated me. Except that one portable kitchen mixer I couldn't put back together, after I opened the case and this little spring flew out...

glenn horton freemanco com

FORTRAN IV, in the 4th form at a private school in Delaware, where we students who were taking the class were granted hands-on, unsupervised access, punching our cards, loading compilers, AFIT subroutines, etc... in an air-conditioned room in the basement of the main building. The best lesson was discovering that the world didn't end when I made the machine crash (the first time was an accident, honest!), and then demonstrated that fact to my friends. Repeatedly - that flashing red button was pretty cool! (and nobody outside the room was the wiser). That empowering discovery (crash, restart) transformed the great and powerful OZ (aka IBM 360) into a simple man behind the curtain ("pay no attention..."), and ever since, no machine has ever intimidated me. Except that one portable kitchen mixer I couldn't put back together, after I opened the case and this little spring flew out...

Scorpion Rojo

Mine was GW-Basic... :laugh:

djenkins2604

z80 assembly back on the TI-85 back in 93-94'. Then on to x86 assembly, turbo pascal and turbo c.

dogdays

TAPS, Three Address Programming System, for an IBM 650. 1961. The IBM 650 was a drum machine with 2,000 word capacity. The third address was the address of the next instruction, one had to be concerned with the length of time of the current instruction took to execute so you would not waste a complete revolution.

snowman53

IBM Assembly in the late 60's. Followed by Fortran - compared to assembly I thought it was easy. Apple Basic in '79 - I thought the immediate results was magic compared to waiting a day or two to run a Fortran program on a mainframe. I also custom hacked the Basic Assembly Code which Apple loaded from a ROM into RAM.

Mike Hankey

I've used a couple of variations of basic mainly back when I was using HPs to control test equipment. Other than that tried to stay away from it. My last job I used an old version of Visual Basic and it had progressed quite a bit but like the C based languages a lot better. C/C++/C#

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Rob Ford 2

Fortran II on an IBM 1130 in 1965. Ran finite element programs on a 64Kb core and 1Mb hard drive. Programs on punched cards.

nipsonanomimata

turbo pascal 5.5

Jasmine2501

My first programming language was BASIC on a VIC-20 in 1980, followed by a similar BASIC on the Apple II and 6502 assembly language on both. I learned programming by porting games from one system to the other. And, remember how software used to be sold? As a code listing in a book, and you typed in the code yourself? I learned programming from that - mostly by re-writing games so I could cheat :) Somewhere around here I still have the code listing from "World Power" - if you remember that.

RafagaX

Logo, I remember the fun i had moving that turtle and creating geometric figures. :)

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Mike Ellison

Basic, on a TRS-80 Model 1... complete with tape cassette storage

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SBJ

COBOL/Punch Cards - 1979 UCSD Pacal - 1980(?) - Heathkit H11