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I too used the turbo pascal package. It piqued my interest as it was advised as the first integrated development environment available to programmers on a PC.
Also, it had a working code example of a simple spreadsheet.
I'm not actually a programmer but I have made a couple of feeble attempts at it. The first programming I did was in machine language for a big old Sperry Univac in school. As I recall, it was a short simple program to exercise i/o. My second attempt was in basic on a Commadore 128 when I tried to build a text based craps program, but never finished.
Was just looking and found a picture, apparently it was a Univac 1219-B.
Ha! When I took my first classes in
programming, we were using IBM XT
machines with 2 5.25" floppy drives
and maybe a gargantuan 20MB hard drive.
And maybe 512k memory.
We kept the Turbo Pascal application on one
diskette, and saved our work on the other one.
And, yes, I wrote a bit of code in Assembler,
which Turbo allowed to be integrated in the
source...some things were possible only with
Assembler!
I too tried programming on the TI 59 my pa sometimes brought home from work.
I had a TI-58C in high school, and I often snarfed time on some Monroe 1880 calculators the school taught an introduction to programming on. I'm not sure I'd call machine language entered as numbers a programming language in the conventional sense.
Later on I became an RPN convert, and I still have a bunch of HP32S and hp42S calcs at home and Free42 installed on everything I own that will run it.
I am pleasantly surprised at the number of folks here that date back to pre-"software engineer" times. I believe that term was first coined when they were working on the guidance computer (which was wire wrapped) for the Apollo missions - circa 1964? 1965?
Initial use of the term "software engineering" is generally associated with Prof. Brian Randell of the University of Newcastle on Tyne in 1967, but he credits Prof. Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Bauer of the Technische Universität München. http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian....rts/index.html
Randell and Prof. Peter Naur used this term as the theme for a NATO Software Engineering Conference, held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in October, 1968, with a follow-on conference held near Rome in 1969. The Proceedings can be downloaded from http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/
Is bash scripting considered a programming language? I didn't see it on the list.
That's all I'm familiar with right now but would love to learn others.
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