I presume your "dot net" entry encompasses any .NET language, other than C# which is already accounted for?
Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
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#52matlab
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#53Aw, no Pascal?
MacPascal here... weirdest code syntax highlighting ever.
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#54I feel like the biggest loser posting this, but VBScript + ASP. Not ASP.NET, just vanilla ASP. After building a couple of perl CGI scripts, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Not having to print() all my HTML was like a dream.
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#55Where's Assembler in the list :) I loved me some MASM. Did no one learn this in the late 80's early 90's? It must still be used a lot for embedded systems ... What I liked about it was a) it was hard and made you really really think about what you where doing (in terms of memory and CPU usage) as you where in total control of both at all times and there was often no abstraction (well unless you wrote in binary I supp…
I would also have voted for assembler if it was on the list, since that's actually the first language I ever used. (On a Magnavox Oddessey 2 game console, no less). I did choose BASIC, because that's the first language that I first successfully used. :)
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#56Smalltalk should be in the list :)
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#57FORTRAN, on a mainframe, with punched cards, in the early 1970s. Shortly after that, BASIC on a hard-copy terminal. (Yeah, I'm an old geezer.)
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Snap... then moved to QuickBasic..ooooooooowwww. Remember the bundles source for gorillas,money and nibbles?
Nibbles was the good stuff. Those were some great times playing around in QBasic. Totally sold me on how amazing programming was.
Me too. then I discovered you could call interrupts in quickbasic and you could inject hand rolled ASM and execute it so upgraded to 4.5 and never looked back. rapid prototyping in DOS :)
Re: Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
#59Where's Assembler in the list :) I loved me some MASM. Did no one learn this in the late 80's early 90's? It must still be used a lot for embedded systems ... What I liked about it was a) it was hard and made you really really think about what you where doing (in terms of memory and CPU usage) as you where in total control of both at all times and there was often no abstraction (well unless you wrote in binary I supp…
oh the memories! I just voted for BASIC (having self learned BBC Basic using school computers after school). Your post reminded me that I actually first started to learn to program asm on an ORIC 16k.
Yes, I voted for BASIC too but ASM was what I first messed around in on an Amstrad 512k using the manual that it came with. Remember when manuals had pin outs of all the ports and sometimes circuit digrams and included a reference manual of the CPU instruction set and sample programs?? Oh those where the days =)
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#60Thats awesome that so many people along with me started with BASIC, I'm guess a lot of people in HN community are between 28-33 years old now
Yeah probably. Seems it was mostly BASIC + asm for that age range. Rock on GWBasic! It's probably where you learnt to use your first GOTO like a billion times :)