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  • T Tim Carmichael

    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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    Michael Varey
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    Let's see: Canadian English and I believe it was Fortran in high school for the first computer language. Don't think I ever used it after that though. Prefer coding in C# these days. mvarey

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    • T Tim Carmichael

      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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      J Julian
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      American English and HP BASIC. Yes and no. Mostly using C, C++ now, with a smattering of others thrown in for entertainment :)

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      • T Tim Carmichael

        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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        JJYatsko
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        English. In 5th grade: BASIC - Commodore and TI 99/4A 7th grade: Apple BASIC 11th grade: PASCAL 12th grade: FORTRAN, C College: UNIX Shell, C++, ProLog, LISP, COBOL Then VB.Net, VB6, C#, Java

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        • T Tim Carmichael

          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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          Joris Janssens
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          Belgian Dutch and Pascal (and a tiny bit of HyperTalk at that time, if anyone remembers that) Later I learned a bit of Visual Basic, VBScript, Perl and Java (never used those much though). These days I use C#, Javascript and PHP (with C# my favourite language). I still speak Dutch and that will probably never change.

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          • T Tim Carmichael

            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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            Al Chak
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            Russian and FORTRAN IV - from parents and teachers Hebrew and C - myself

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            • T Tim Carmichael

              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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              edmurphy99
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              English - Basic on the IBM 360

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              • M Mark_Wallace

                H.Brydon wrote:

                The "L" in "HTML" stands for "Language", as in "HyperText Markup Language"

                As opposed to "HTPL" for "HyperText Programming Language", presumably.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                H Brydon
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                Agreed, HTML is not a programming language. It is a markup language, used in the wonderful world of computers to display something using in a particular way with markup codes. Welcome to the discussion.

                -- Harvey

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                • T Tim Carmichael

                  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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                  RogelioP EX DE HL
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                  EspaƱol, TRS-80 BASIC Yes and yes English is now the mainstay but Spanish is used often in my house and sometimes at work with colleagues that speak it. Have a slew of old computers I still use... it's a hobby thing :-\ -- RP

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                  • T Tim Carmichael

                    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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                    agolddog
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                    US English (northern midwest dialect) and BASIC on the old TRS-80.

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                    • T Tim Carmichael

                      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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                      KLPounds
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                      English- With a Western Pennsylvania twist (creek=crick, roof=ruff, and words like costume sound like coshtume.. you all= yinz on occasion too. Lancaster= Lan-caster, not lankister) First language I was exposed to was TRS-80 Model 1 BASIC. I was very young so it's hard to say I ever used it with any regularity. But I have a couple elementary programs on a cassette tape. DOS Batch scripts and DBASE would probably count more as a regular use "language". GW/QBasic took me thru puberty. Then I decided I liked hardware more than software.. Went down the systems/networking path thru college so only dealt with vbs and Batch. I only turned back to software as a career in the last 8 or 9 years. I haven't touched a DBASE/Clipper application in maybe 5 years. I haven't written a meaningful Batch script also in about 5 years.. Last batch file of significance I believe was a result of some crap the DBASE/Clipper app needed :-D My career has put me in majority of Winforms VB.NET, more T-SQL scripting lately, C# only as required, occasional VBA and JavaScript, and the rare PowerShell script here and there. I know that kinda blurs lines for some people when defining "language".

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                      • T Tim Carmichael

                        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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                        svella
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                        English & APL. Yes and hell no for I hope obvious reasons!!!

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                        • T Tim Carmichael

                          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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                          GStrad
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                          English English (as opposed to Canadian English etc) and Forth!

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                          • T Tim Carmichael

                            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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                            ssadler
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                            English and z80 machine code (I didn't have an assembler back then so I programmed by the numbers). Today I mostly program in C++ (for embedded devices).

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                            • T Tim Carmichael

                              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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                              Bruce Patin
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                              American English and IBM System 360 Assembler (or maybe FORTRAN, I'm not sure). I still use American English, because everyone around me still uses it. I don't code in IBM System 360 Assembler (or FORTRAN), because it doesn't run on anything significant around me without an emulator, and there are more currently supported, higher level languages to get things done, anyway.

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                              • K Keith Barrow

                                Nobody speaks Welsh, it's all made up to annoy the English

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                                I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]

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                                A A J Rodriguez
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                                My pardons and apologies for my American bias, ignorance of most things UK, and the lack of political correctness, but this has always been one of my favorite jokes, and this seems the place to drop it: Quoting from St. Genesius of Rome, patron saint of comedy: "And then the Lord made the Scottish, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them kilts so that no-one would take them seriously. And then the Lord made the Irish, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them alcohol, so that their brains would be ever-addled. And then the Lord made the Welsh, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them the Welsh language, so that no-one would understand them. And then the Lord made the English, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them the Scottish, the Irish and the Welsh."

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                                • T Tim Carmichael

                                  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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                                  dfredesc
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                                  Spanish and Basic in a Wang 2200. I learned this version of Basic by myself only with the manual that came with the machine, during my practice as electronic technician. Then i felt in love with the computer programming, and decided to study Computer engineering, where my first official language was Watfor, an educational purpose compiler of Fortran IV, and yes, I used punched cards in my first classes

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                                  • T Tim Carmichael

                                    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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                                    A A J Rodriguez
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                                    American English and very basic Latin-American Spanish, with Applesoft Basic on an Apple //e (and later a //c with 128KB RAM!) I've developed a much better understanding of Spanish over time, and my computer language skills now include smatterings of Erlang, Prolog, Haskell, Clojure, Scala, Python, Ruby, VB.NET, C#, F#, Javascript, HTML, and others.

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                                    • S Simon ORiordan from UK

                                      I believe I just was.:cool:

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                                      BarrRobot
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                                      No you weren't. The Queen's English and Fortran IV for me too.

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                                      • T Tim Carmichael

                                        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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                                        Ralph D Wilson II
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                                        First spoken language: Japanese First Computer Language: JCL (Vintage 1969 ;-) I don't use either on a regular basis. However, I have found Japanese (and German, which I learned late) to be handy for variable names and labels (especially in Assembly language programming).

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                                        • T Tim Carmichael

                                          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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                                          RC Roeder
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                                          A variation of Dartmouth Basic called LHS basic developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley in the early 70's. I tried Fortran, but it was hard cutting the holes in the cards with an exacto knife. RC

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