dBase... Well, it was on the computer dad brought home from work.
Poll: What was the first programming language you learned?
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#42I chose scripting language, because I was introduced to programming with mIRC script. :) I actually used mIRC script to write socket-based tools that didn't even run on IRC. I wrote Battle.net bots with it, if anyone recalls those days. This was in like 1997.
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#43Where'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.
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#45The first language that I "learned" was BASIC but the first language that taught me how to program was JavaScript (especially when 'JavaScript is a Lisp' was a popular meme).
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#46Thats 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
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#47Not sure how BASIC didn't make this list. Played around with it first on an old tandy my dad had and then got actually interested when I started learning ti-basic for the ti-86. First "modern" language was PHP, although I don't know if you can really count PHP3 as modern.
Ah.. MASM, AFD, Peter Norton's PC Programmer's Bible... anybody remembers how that first hyper-link based helpfile was called with all the INTs and stuff ?
Although I studied programming (I was 13) one of those Soviet IBM System/360 clones in FORTRAN I did not like it. I was pretty much fascinated with Ataris which started to popup in USSR in late 80th, so I learnt 6502 assembly soon after I put my hands on one of 130XE. When IBM PCs came in I learnt x86 asm, then C and C++, but much much later :-)
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#48BASIC (CPC-6128, then TI-83+).
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#49Qbasic on a 286.
Exactly the same.
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#50Scheme is not in this list?