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[LeoTheFox]

What was the first computer language you learned?

Mine was Fortran 95 if I remember correctly!
Quickly followed by C and many more

[bdowne01]

Commodore BASIC. lol

[CJSS]

After I learnt some web programming, HTML, I started learning a little C++.

[JanusHost]

Commodore BASIC

[bdowne01]

Originally Posted by JanusHost

Commodore BASIC

Yay! Another high-five for the 80's!

Remember typing in those huge programs from the Commodore magazines and spending no less than half a day finding the typo?

[MarkioE]

Has to be HTML for me. I got into programming after first wanting to design a website for an online game - now I am a software developer with experience in C#/Java/C++/PHP/ASP

[Jamie Edwards]

BASIC, on a Vtech kid's toy in the 90s

[Backupplease]

Started with VB and then went onto c++. Although VB is pretty much useless it made everything a lot easier to understand.

[8088]

Atari BASIC on a 600XL.

Originally Posted by bdowne01

Remember typing in those huge programs from the Commodore magazines and spending no less than half a day finding the typo?

Yes, haha. Though, what was worse was that we didn't have a datarecorder at first, so nothing could be saved :-(

[FRH Dave]

Originally Posted by bdowne01

Yay! Another high-five for the 80's!

Remember typing in those huge programs from the Commodore magazines and spending no less than half a day finding the typo?

Remember "BASIC Computer Games" by David Ahl? I started on an Apple ][ Plus and had a Coleco Adam at home. Today my home is well-stocked with an Atari 800, C-128, C-64, TRS-80 4P, AT&T Unix PC, and a DEC Rainbow. All fully loaded with peripherals, of course.

http://freshroastedhosting.com/c-128.jpg

So to answer the question, it's a tie between Coleco SmartBASIC and Applesoft BASIC. Today it's Bash / Perl / Python / Java.

Thanks for the flashback to a time when "PR#6" meant something completely different!

[viGeek]

Pascal -> QBasic -> Visual Basic 3.0 -> C++

The first four, miss those days, digging through books to figure stuff out

[techstubble]

TCSH -> Java -> Perl -> PHP -> Python

I still love Perl, it's so versatile for quick solutions.

[rassen]

C++ > HTML > ASP / PHP . little bit with Python, ASP.NET

[T-Junk]

Originally Posted by 8088

Atari BASIC on a 600XL.

Same here, but mine was an Atari 800. Back in the days of the actual "floppy" floppy disks.

[Vaebris]

I started with Basic then moved to pascal then C then C++/PHP.