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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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                      • 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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                        dpminusa
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                        Fortran IV and English in 1964.

                        "Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"

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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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                          BiggerDon
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                          Amurricun!!!!...and still do! oh...that computer stuff. In academics, Pascal. In the real world...and I don't know that I've seen this in any other responses, NEAT and it's variations. Oh, now I'm a self-taught VBA guy with smatterings of SQL

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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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                            ju1ia
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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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                            • A Al Chak

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

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                              ju1ia
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                              Russian and Fortran 4 - when and where?

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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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                                Doug Henderson
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                                Canadian English and Fortran IV with Watfor and Watfiv

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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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                                  Dave Neale
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                                  English and assembler, I still use English but procram in 'C' ;)

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                                  • J ju1ia

                                    Russian and Fortran 4 - when and where?

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                                    Al Chak
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                                    Minsk.

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                                    • J ju1ia

                                      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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                                      Al Chak
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                                      Red lamps... Yellow lamps... My first work was programming and HW support for ES1020 computer. The computer is soviet stolen c opy of IBM360.

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                                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                        English and COBOL. Yes. And No Way José.

                                        The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)

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                                        KP Lee
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                                        What you said! :laugh:

                                        OriginalGriff wrote:

                                        Yes. And No Way José.

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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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                                          KP Lee
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                                          English and no language in coding(move around wires to change the voltage transfer across capacitors and other electrical equipment and I have no memory of how it all worked. Since floating point operations wasn't a concept then, have no idea of it's speed. Since you could tell it was working by watching the voltage changes I doubt it was faster than 1 flops) yes, I still use English. First coding language COBOL, which I remember slightly better than those wires.

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