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

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fos:
My first was Fortran with punch cards in the early 70s, crt terminal were experimental and unreliable. I graduated to an early BASIC on an IBM selectric terminal. I eventually learned C and Turbo C++. I would have to say my favorite ic ANSI C. But I have always been an amateur so take my opinions with a grain of salt.

Jeff

Flymo:
Hex!  I started with Hex machine code on the SC/MP in 1977

C4 = LDI = Load Immediate

Not long after, I was introduced to a High Level Language -> NIBL
http://www.dos4ever.com/SCMP/SCMP.html#NIBL

Neither of them involved writing more than a few K of code, but
that was all the memory there was in the world at that time. Well,
that was what my boss told me. 

NIBL was surprisingly good, the indirect '@' operator was demon
for creating useful integer (8-bit) variables and (best of all) banging
or reading bytes in memory-mapped I/O, it is so nearly a favourite.
Lean but effective, designed for the task it performed.

>>>>off topic<<<<<
SC/MP was afaik the first multiprocessor micro architecture sold to
the public. I still have the demo card in the attic. It is neat.
For a long long time it looked like being the last of the multiprocessors,
but Casey Powell at Sequent picked that up with a successor to the
SC/MP, the NS32000 family in 1983/4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems

Sadly, it was at that time very much an Intel world, and Sequent
switched to them for the next design iteration, although Casey
told me that it was a backward step in many ways.

Now Intel and AMD are enjoying the fun of multiprocessing - the devil
is in the software segmentation.  32 years ago, that was also true.
>>>>back again<<<<<

Fave language has to be FORTH, the implementation on the
Jupiter Ace.  Fell in love with that, bigtime.  Wrote some very
very unreadable code, too! ???

Unfavourite is C++.  Just as I was getting the hang of C, not
a great love, but useful enough, along comes this Object OOP stuff
that cluttered up the scenery with fuzzy concepts and  h u g e
compiled code.         Most of the time (when coding) I was happily doing
similar applications in Assembler for Z80/NSC800 and COP400 single-
chip micro - in about a tenth of the ROM needed by the compilers.
Of course, it all had to fit inside 64K, or 640K, or less than 1K on
some  COP400  low cost versions (like 50c in volume).
Today code is so big that different approaches are clearly needed,
guess I ought to learn something more useful!

<sigh>
 ::)

fos:
The university I attended had a quad core Sequent machine running Unix in the early 90s. While taking a C/Unix intro course there were only four unix terminals in the computer lab. There were over a hundred students.

I solved my problem by loading MW Coherent on a Zeos 386 laptop. I actually got an early version of X Window running on it. The MW K&R C compiler was excellent. It was fast and produced very efficient code.

Jeff

nickispeaki:
first basic and Russian Algorithmic Language. Then favorite Pascal.

alanbcohen:
My first computer language was CUPL, a PL/I variant that was a contemporary of the original Dartmouth BASIC.  It was run from punch cards via RJE HASP.  I guess my favorites for my own use, or at least the ones I used most frequently were AppleSoft Basic and Forth-79; I developed my own Forth-79 system for the Apple ][ series of machines.  My least favorite was clearly Pascal; I am not a fan of heavily-typed languages.  I would add that I enjoyed the application generators in Revelation and Advanced Revelation; they were the simplest, most convenient databases I've ever used.  Unfortunately, the modern successors to them are well outside my price range at $1,400US at a minimum. (I paid $150 new ten years ago).

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