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What an odd path, I had the same sort of decision around 95 as well, ended up with VB after spending 6 months building an app in turbo pascal that had so many memory leaks it blew a brand new 386 away. Just showed my lack of training I guess. Now it is c# and I really don't want to have to change again!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
It seems odd from the outside but it didn't to me at the time. Not only was the DOS based IDE for Turbo C++ really very similar to the DOS based IDE for QBasic which I'd graduated to but C++ gave me many of the things I was looking for in BASIC and not finding. The ability to write larger programs, dynamic memory allocation, serializing, objects with constructors and private functions, loadable modules. I was already trying to do these things either by simulation or convention so C++ made my life easier rather than harder. Reuse by inheritance was the clincher, not having to create another UDT with all the same stuff as the last one :thumbsup: I guess if I'd had access to VB at that point that's the way I would have gone as it did eventually provide many of those things. I did pick up VB5 and 6 later on and even ported some of my QBasic code but I found it curiously unsatisfying and then again VB6 for a bit of commercial work when it was the only practical way to use DCOM but I handed that project off pretty quickly and the next guy pretty much rewrote it. I guess once you've moved on there's no going back and that's probably a good thing. Having said that I did 3 months of C# last year and am quite happy going back to C++, the C# was fun but it reminded me of the plasticy feel of VB somehow.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Hungarian and 6502 assembly Rarely and no
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
French and Z80 assembler later : COBOL, PL1, Pascal, Basic (only some idioms), C, C++, C#, PHP, HTML, W-Language (4GL Windev) and ... English (not fluent)
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Swiss German and Standard Pascal (on a PDP 11). Still Swiss German, improved English and an understanding of French. VB6, VBA (mostly in Excel pricing tools), COBOL, Assembler and basic understanding of other languages (C#, Fortran (not proud of it) etc) without using them myself but I had to read through the code to understand what it was doing.
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
German, some Dutch, and Pascal. Still use german, although in the meantime it's got a swiss-german flavor ;) As for dutch, I rarely use it any more as I've found that most dutch speak much better german or english than I dutch. Anyway, I never formally learned it, and I've been told when I speak it sounds funny because of the local accent and 'slang' that I grew up with. Pascal, last used it (actually Borland Delphi) some 15 years ago to develop the client side of a client-server application. Since then I've mostly worked in C++, with a short detour to Java. While I can't help my mother (and father) tongue, Pascal was unusal as a first language at my time: most of my contemporaries started out with Apple-II or C=64 Basic.
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
English English and Sinclair ZX81 Basic - I still use one of them on a regular basis
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
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The Queen's English and Fortran iv.
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Portuguese (born and raised in Portugal) In school first learned Pascal, later C, COBOL and VB. First work was in Delphi, loved it and used it until i met C#. Meanwhile attended University (Night school) where i learned C++ and Java TL;DR Portuguese; Pascal
Paulo Gomes Over and Out :D
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Australian English FORTRAN IV
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Urdu --> Using at home and with some of my relatives/friends. C++ --> Used at the time of my Graduation (2001/2002) but not now.
Previous -> Read "CLR via C#" by Jeffrey Ritcher. Current -> Exploring WCF thru Apress' "Pro WCF" by Chris Peiris and Dennis Mulder. Next -> Need to read "The Art of Computer Programming" by Donald E. Knuth.
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The Queen's English and Fortran iv.
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Threads don't obey your rules, man.
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Brummie English and Algol60. Actually I'd done some programming on whatever language WITCH used when I was at Wolverhampton CAT in '65 but that may not count. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_computer[^]
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Threads don't obey your rules, man.
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I believe I just was.:cool:
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Probably something new here: My first verbal language was Swiss-German (and it still is). I'm also pretty good at English and use it for pretty much anything related to my developer activities. The first programming language I really knew was PL/1 on z/OS. That was 2008. Thanks to the Swiss educational system and the company I took my apprenticeship, I could work on Mainframes for two and a half years. I also got to know a little COBOL, C and REXX. In the second half of this apprenticeship i got to know Java and then C# which I'm using on a daily basis now. Lately though, we're also using a lot of JavaScript.
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Without starting a flame war or bashing session... What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding Do you still use either on a regular basis? Why or why not? Canadian English and Commodore BASIC Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's). I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
Malay and a BASIC variant [no idea which] The Malay was because as a baby we had a Malay Nanny and I spent more time with her than anyone so my first words were Malay. No, I cannot remember a single word of it now. :-D BASIC is still there, but I try not to use. I do do a bit of VB work, but never by choice.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol "Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Is there any point to this question? (given 90% responding with English and BASIC)
I am part of the other 10%. Spanish and Assembler ;P
