What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Katie Wasserman]

BASIC in 1972(?) on a Data General Nova 1200(?) in our high school -- BASIC had to be loaded from punch tape, then you used the ASR 33 Teletype for writing programs.

Starting in 1974: Fortran (just taught myself for fun), APL (we had to use this physics lab -- crazy -- and for fun) , BRUIN (I doubt that anyone ever used this but me), PL/I (for a computational linguistics course), LISP (for an early AI course)

In 1977: 6502 machine language (hand assembled) on my Commodore PET 8K.