Ok Which was very your first programming language?

[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

[User 4022793]

@0,0 say "Clipper!!!"

[lesNZ]

Burroughs B series Assembler, about 1965. 3 address instructions, 9.6K memory mainframe.

Les

[Sharon Freas]

Pascal on a Honeywell-Xerox Sigma 9 First real paid job - PLUS (Programming Language for Univac Systems)

[MarvinMartian]

Fortran!

[Mark H2]

Four of them at once (computer engineering degree) in 1979... ICL System 4 machine code, ICL System 4 Assembler, BASIC II(?) on a RadioShack TRS80 and DEC PDP-8 machine code. Oh what fun it was. I did do some Fortran (but not so sure about that) in my last year of high school (1978)but it was aminiscule amount so I don't really count it.