>Yes, but I bet the first one's you've learned were already algol-like. BZZZZT! Wrong answer! I started with BASIC and transitioned from there to assembly lan

>Yes, but I bet the first one's you've learned were already algol-like. BZZZZT! Wrong answer! I started with BASIC and transitioned from there to assembly language. Wrote several games and device drivers in assembly language (BASIC was too slow) and then learned Forth. Tried really hard to like Forth, and played with it for a while; loved some aspects of the language, but couldn't wrap my head around how to write a game with it, so I gave up and kept writing games in assembly language. Pascal was my next language, and that wasn't until later. Much later than that I finally got to C. You might think of BASIC as Algol-like, though I'd say it's more Fortran-like. Assembly language, though, is about un-Algol as a language can be, as is Forth.