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What was your first programming language? Favorite? Least Favorite?

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Lee:
Also in the vein of clivesay's question, and Neo's, what are your experiences with various programming languages?

I'm trying to get a better idea of who's out there in TC land.

For me: First: BASIC.  Favorite: C.  Least Favorite: COBOL.

After learning some BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL (yuck) in college (and dropping out of college), I set out on a quest to learn some more about computers.  I taught myself Pascal, Forth, dBASE III Plus, Clipper and assembler and had a hard time with C.  Then I went back to school and took a class in C and it was easy - to this day I'm not sure why I ever had trouble with it.  Then  classes in C++, Java, VB, HTML, javascript and even one in regular BASIC.  Yeah, I know HTML's not a "programming" language.

Now I'm doing mostly EDI work in MUMPS and some shell scripting on UNIX.

Jason W:
Shell scripting is the only type of programming I have experience in, though I am eager to learn C.  I can look at a C source file and make small changes but I would like to be further able to write or modify C programs.  It is such a universally used language, especially with Linux related apps, that learning it would seem a good investment.  At this stage in life I don't have time to learn more than one language, and even that will cut into other things, so C gets the nod.

I have "C for dummies" and a couple others, but I plan to get the K&R book I have heard so much about and do some deeper learning.

mikshaw:
First: Basic.  I didn't spend much time with it, and didn't learn anything beyond printing stuff to the screen.  As I said in the other thread,  I hated it.

First language I learned comfortably: Actionscript (Flash 4).  I had already gotten sick of Flash by the time Actionscript became widely considered a programming language, though (Flash 6, a.k.a Flash MX), so again maybe this doesn't count.

I never actually started enjoying programming until I tried Linux and shell scripting.

After that, I got into using Lua thanks to Robert and Jay Carlson.

I have never learned much beyond that...Perl and Python annoy me from an enduser's point of view, so I have no interest in them.  C/C++ are the only "real" languages I have any interest in, but I've had a hard time getting myself to stick with the studies.  Apart from that, Ruby looks interesting, but never found the time to study  it yet.

Favorite is still *nix shell, since I can quickly make a script to tie together a pile of programs that other people have already created.

lagagnon:
First: FORTRAN. Favourite: Tcl/Tk Least Favourite: C++ Now learning: Python.

softwaregurl:
first would be Integer basic, fav was the included mini assembler. I kind of wish it was still practical to write in that low level of language. When I got stuck without a copy of the mini assembler I would grab the book and program with the two digit hex codes.
For now it's mostly perl because, coupled with a web server, the end user has a familiar web interface (sorry mikshaw :P).  I was very disappointed with c++ for windows 3.1x and dropped it but now that I'm getting more into Linux I'm spending some time getting back into c/c++. Shell is difficult because I use it so little that I've forgotten what I learned by the next time I use it.  Right now I'm trying to understand using regex with utf-8.  Wasn't keeping track and some things Ive written quit working.

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