first programming language

sup /prog/

what was the first programming language you learned, and what one do you use now?

for me, first is java.  univ. requires java over c++ or anything else, so that's all i've got under my belt so far.

I learned ANSI C when I was 12, while writing a compiler for it (in ANSI C).

My first language was SAGE. As you can see, I'm quite an expert.

Applescript, because I was a Mac user who wanted to automate things. I dug pretty much as deep as I could into that (far beyond the level of decent documentation), so the natural next step (jump, really) was C.

Now it's mostly Python and/or C for serious projects. I'm also learning Smalltalk in my free time, with Scheme or another Lisp next in the queue.

_{Not to bust your bubble, but I'm fairly sure there's another one of these threads somewhere that you could have bumped.}

>>4
OP almost certainly isn't wearing bampu pantsu.

I started with Assembler on a PDP-11. Now it's a mixture of C and Asm.

When I was about 6 I started with the BASIC interpreter of a computer that my family had somehow laying around. I had no real docs or help, only a few program listings to input manually. Of course they never worked quite right.

BASIC on the C64. Then Pascal in school. Then Java and OCAML in uni. Now Perl.

>>7
I feel bad for you

My first language was FORTRAN IV, being the better choice than City&Guilds, the only other language supported by the might ICL 4100 at the local technical college.

Ah, the good old days with a 12-key card punch and the occasional teletype e/punch tape (which explains why to this day my typing audible far and wide)

>>7
BASIC on the VIC-20 for me (first computer), though I had played around with the PET line at school.  Then assembler, then QuickBASIC, then C, C++, Java, Lisp, Erlang...

Logo → QuickBasic → C++ → Java → Haskell → C++ again → C → Perl → PHP → ASM → Python → Scheme → CL → More Haskell

>>11
VALID HASKELL CODE.

basic on my first computer, c64, i was 4 fukken years old and you don't have to believe it but it's the damn truth, of course all i could do is pretty much run commands to start games but that's still basic, and the manual shows you a lot of neat stuff like how to make music and simple games or demos

i don't use anything basic related anymore, the closest was about 5-6 years ago when i dabbled a bit in asp

now i use mostly perl, php and c

>>12
VALID HASKELL HALIBUT.
fixed.

>>14
No, you didn't.

>>15
boring rhetoric is boring