What Was Your First Programming Language?
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07-04-2015, 09:50 PM
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language?
Applesoft BASIC of course. Almost an entire generation of kids born in the USA around 1970-1980 or so knew to automatically enter this program any time a BASIC prompt was available on any computer in sight:
10 PRINT (or ? for you Apple-heads) "doodie" 20 GOTO 10 and then punch in RUN for some quick laughs. I never did that much interesting stuff with BASIC (until recently!) and my first real programming was done with Pascal. I can't help but think how much better off we'd have been if Smalltalk-80 had made it as the default home computer GUI interface / API / environment / etc instead of the varying Mac, Windows, and Unix desktops. It was way too slow in those days though, at least on affordable hardware. |
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