First language
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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
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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.
Spanish and 68000 Assembler and C. My first project was for the Commodore Amiga 1000, using C, Assembler and AmigaBasic. I am not sure which one was my first programming language.
Do not look at the past. It no longer exists. Do not live thinking in the future, it does not exist at this moment. Only exists the present. Live it remembering the past to avoid mistakes and with the promise of the future as motivation.
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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 & GOTRAN
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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.
Italian and Pascal. I don't use Pascal anymore (currently I use C#, Java and C++ depending on the project), and slowly I'm abandoning Italian language too, since I moved from Italy to the UK.
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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.