What was your first programming language?
 

The LQ poll series continues. This time we want to know: What was your first programming language?

--jeremy

Basic, I want to say fifth or sixth grade.

some kind of basic on ZX Spectrum and C64. but before that I used a TI 59 (if that counts).

BASIC for me too...

How did you manage to forget to put BASIC as an option?

The first language I actually worked in was FoxPro 3.0. Prior to that, I dabbled a little in Ansi C in college but never pursued it because at that time I was not interested in coding.

BASIC has been added.

--jeremy

Commodore PET Basic, yes I am that old :)

too late, already voted...

Introduction to Fortran by the esteemed Stephen C. Plumb.

https://sites.google.com/site/cardal...rtran-35145415

I read this book and was hooked!

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first programming language
 

The first programming language I used was Pascal in 1967

My first programming language was a calculator language, that of the Victor 4800.

There was a time in the mid-1970s in which programmable calculators were the least expensive "computers" that were Turing-complete and able to solve real problems.
Ed

Paper punch cards.
The languages I used at the time were two custom ones by Wang for one system and by Raytheon for another system. Eventually did move to BASIC and then PASCAL.

Basic on DOS.... :D

Applesoft Basic (IMKO-2/Pravetz-82 - Apple II clone). But immediately with Basic I had to learn some Assembler 6502, because of the computer architecture. It wasn't possible to write really complex and usable (fast enough) program without asm subroutines.