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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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                            • 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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                              RussTiller
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                              English and to show how old I am System 360 Assembler Language. I now code in C# and a little VBA when I am in Excel.

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                              • A A A J Rodriguez

                                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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                                BrainiacV
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                                Just remember, If you speak three languages, you're trilingual, if you speak two languages, you're bilingual, and if you speak only one language, you're American.

                                Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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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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                                  BrainiacV
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                                  To use the term this redneck idiot I had to work with, American (not English). I was given a PDP-8 assembler manual, but it didn't make sense at first, so FOCAL-8 was my first computer language, followed by Basic-8, and then looped back to PALD-8 (PDP-8 assembler).

                                  Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                                  • G GStrad

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

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                                    BrainiacV
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                                    GStrad wrote:

                                    and Forth!

                                    Good man! FORTH is the one true language! I really miss working in it.

                                    Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                                      Just remember, If you speak three languages, you're trilingual, if you speak two languages, you're bilingual, and if you speak only one language, you're American.

                                      Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                                      A A J Rodriguez
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                                      BrainiacV wrote:

                                      and if you speak only one language, you're American.

                                      It's sad how true that is, and even more sad how proud most Americans are of the fact that they only speak one language.

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                                      • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                                        No, I've never played tennis[^] in my life! ;P


                                        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                                        BrainiacV
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                                        No, he meant Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie[^] Gotta love Internet Help Desk[^]

                                        Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                                          To use the term this redneck idiot I had to work with, American (not English). I was given a PDP-8 assembler manual, but it didn't make sense at first, so FOCAL-8 was my first computer language, followed by Basic-8, and then looped back to PALD-8 (PDP-8 assembler).

                                          Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                                          BiggerDon
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                                          hmmmm..."idiot redneck" may be yanking your chain by feeding your biases.

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