Aw, no Pascal?
Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
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Re: Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
#22seems strange to put php with javascript, html, and css, while giving ruby and python their own options.
Yeah, it was probably a bad decision. But I chose to go strictly by definition, and PHP is a "a widely-used general-purpose scripting language" (http://www.php.net/).
Javascript, HTML, and CSS are obviously very different from PHP, but they are all scripting languages.
Re: Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
#23As I said in the other thread... Visual Basic 6 when I was 14... I literally had to stop programming for about 3 years before I could start "fresh" again.
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#24Qbasic on a 286.
Same here, though on an 8086
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#25Pascal. With Just Enough Pascal, way back when Symantec was mainly known for making compilers.
Re: Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
#26seems strange to put php with javascript, html, and css, while giving ruby and python their own options.
Yeah, it was probably a bad decision. But I chose to go strictly by definition, and PHP is a "a widely-used general-purpose scripting language" ( http://www.php.net/ ). Javascript, HTML, and CSS are obviously very different from PHP, but they are all scripting languages.
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Re: Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
#27seems strange to put php with javascript, html, and css, while giving ruby and python their own options.
Yeah, it was probably a bad decision. But I chose to go strictly by definition, and PHP is a "a widely-used general-purpose scripting language" ( http://www.php.net/ ). Javascript, HTML, and CSS are obviously very different from PHP, but they are all scripting languages.
i think you are mistaken. generally speaking, python and ruby are considered scripting languages. html and css are not.
Re: Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
#28BASIC on the TRS-80. I was 8.
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#29uhhh...rapidq
Re: Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
#30Beyond DOS/Windows batch files which are terrible but indeed a language, my first "real" language was Turing ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language) ). It was mainly used in Canadian high schools - at least it was when I was there at the beginning of the decade.
I didn't like it but it had a full graphical environment that was pretty accessible to students. I liked that our particular IDE/interpreter was called WinOOT (Windows Object Oriented Turing) - OOT pronounced like the stereotypical Canadian pronunciation of about, "aboot". If that's not patriotic enough, it also had a built-in graphics function named drawmapleleaf.