What Was Your First Programming Language?

[pier4r]

(12-23-2017 02:41 PM)Accutron Wrote:  Here's a couple languages that you won't find on any lists or infographics, even though thousands of programmers wrote millions of line of code in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Symbolic Nike-X (SNX) and CENTRAN, the assembler and high level language for the Bell/UNIVAC Data Processing System (DPS). The DPS was a huge multiprocessor system, originally built for the Nike-X ABM program and later adapted for the Sentinel and Safeguard ABM programs which Nike-X evolved into. As far as I know, there are no publicly available references for either of these languages, probably because there is still a single DPS in operation as part of the Perimeter Accquisition Radar (PAR), an early warning phased array radar installation at Cavalier AFS in North Dakota. The DPS was built from Western Electric discrete self-biasing direct-coupled transistor logic ICs with a 15000-year MTBF, and originally required an IBM 360 and a CDC 1700 as support hardware.

Interesting bit!