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View Poll Results: What was your first programming language?
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.
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.
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.
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