What Was Your First Programming Language?

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(07-03-2015 05:51 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  What was your first programming language?

Mine was BASIC running on a PDP-8I and TSS-8. It was a newly offered class in high school and lab time was limited so I was granted unsupervised weekend access. Kinda special at the time.

Dave

Focal (very similar to Basic) on a PDP-8 in 1974 in High School.

(07-03-2015 08:38 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  That brings up a secondary question. What do we call the language of our calculators? RPN is the notation and "keystroke" is the method, but what's the language?

Dave

For the 41, the term FOCAL was coined (Forty One CAlculator Language) and used by many, but not all, fans.

In 28/48/49/50, the language was called RPL with several famous stories of what it stands for, though Bill Wickes did admit Reverse Polish Lisp was the real version. Of course there are UserRPL and SystemRPL variants.

No idea what the "language" in the 38/39/40 series was called, if anything. Anyone know?

And of course Prime has HP PPL.