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.
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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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.
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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.
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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Nobody speaks Welsh, it's all made up to annoy the English
PB 369,783 wrote:
I just find him very unlikeable, and I think the way he looks like a prettier version of his Mum is very disturbing.[^]
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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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 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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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.
Well guys, I believe none of you have ever heard of ALMIR, the ALGOL-like language I learned and used in 1976, in AlmaAta, capital of Kazakhstan, former USSR. I was a schoolboy in the best math school then, and the language was built into Mir-1 machine, which I believe was an enhanced Soviet copy of some PDP. You can not even imagine the grade of impossibility which I felt looking at it's blinking warm red register indicator lamps. And there was a tape with listing and immediate outpoot. And it was great, but I don't use it now :(
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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.
Canadian English and Fortran IV with Watfor and Watfiv
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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 and assembler, I still use English but procram in 'C' ;)
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Well guys, I believe none of you have ever heard of ALMIR, the ALGOL-like language I learned and used in 1976, in AlmaAta, capital of Kazakhstan, former USSR. I was a schoolboy in the best math school then, and the language was built into Mir-1 machine, which I believe was an enhanced Soviet copy of some PDP. You can not even imagine the grade of impossibility which I felt looking at it's blinking warm red register indicator lamps. And there was a tape with listing and immediate outpoot. And it was great, but I don't use it now :(
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English and COBOL. Yes. And No Way José.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
