Ok Which was very your first programming language?

[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.

[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

[KLPounds]

TRS-80 Model 1 Level 1 BASIC.. Was about 5-6 years old when I inherited it from my dad. 4K memory and a cassette drive. 10 INPUT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME? ";A$ 20 PRINT "HELLO ";A$;"..." 30 END At that age, making the computer do the magic stuff really blew my mind.

[RASPeter]

Basic on a TRS-80 Model 3, around 1987. I also had an Atari 600XL, but the programming manual that came with it was a bit more advanced than Tandy's.

[Scorpion Rojo]

Well I definitely like C based languages a lot more than VB, but, what can I tell you?, that was the first time I make a touch a source code.

[Andrew Monteiro]

Applesoft Basic (think that's what it was called), in 1979 on an Apple ][+ Not long after it was 6502 assembly on a VIC20 and the Apple ][+

[sandyson]

Basic and the closely similar Focal on a PDP-8/I (1970 age 15). The DEC machine was available to us via teletype for 8 hours a day from a nearby community college. No online storage - offline was 7-bit punch tape. Later, Basic on a Spectra 70 and Fortran on the IBM 360 (1972).

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[Brian G Wheatley]

Dang, Rob beat me to it! Autocoder on an IBM 1440 in 1967.

[DUsikov1]

Started in 1968, the sequence: ALGOL,FORTRAN,ASSEMBLER,BASIC,PROLOG,PYTHON,C,C++, Last 12 years C++. Now I am trying to program in Natural Language (developping parser for it, etc. Daniel

[Hank Hodgin]

DEC Basic on a PDP 11-20 in 1974

[omahabull]

Ok, you beat me My first programming language was Fortran IV on an IBM 365/65 in early '74, however I also worked with punch cards! The crazy teacher had us keep track of the number of runs it took to get a successful run, anything over 3 resulted in a down-grade :(. Obviously he was an extremely big fan of desk checking your code. Not real bright though, he relied on the honor system for the students to report their number of runs ;)

[omahabull]

Ok, you beat me My first programming language was Fortran IV on an IBM 365/65 in early '74, however I also worked with punch cards! The crazy teacher had us keep track of the number of runs it took to get a successful run, anything over 3 resulted in a down-grade :( Obviously he was an extremely big fan of desk checking your code. Not real bright though, he relied on the honor system for the students to report their number of runs ;)

[Member 8433773]

Hi all, Zilog (remember the name?) Z80 ASM with ZX Spectrum, MOS (remember the name?) 6502 ASM with Apple II, Intel 8086 (and relatives) ASM with cloned and true PC's, Intel 8051 (and relatives) ASM with several embeded projects, QBASIC with PC's, Turbo Pascal with PC's (the one I liked most), VB2005 with PC's Take care F.Soares

[Phillip Burlison]

Fortran!

[Michael Kingsford Gray]

FORTRAN IV, 1972