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Not sure how BASIC didn't make this list. Played around with it first on an old tandy my dad had and then got actually interested when I started learning ti-bas
by andrewjshults 16y ago
Not sure how BASIC didn't make this list. Played around with it first on an old tandy my dad had and then got actually interested when I started learning ti-basic for the ti-86. First "modern" language was PHP, although I don't know if you can really count PHP3 as modern.
- solipsist 16y agoMy bad. I'm from a younger generation so I'm pretty uneducated when it comes to some of the earlier programming languages.
- andrewjshults 16y agoJust for curiosity sake, what is now the younger generation (I'm 23 and hadn't quite realized I've already left the younger generation).
- solipsist 16y agoI'm 15.
- pvg 16y agoThere's probably quite a few people who started out during the 8-bit micro era who will have some variant of BASIC or BASIC + assembly as a 'first language'. Pascal was widely used in higher education during roughly the same period.
- ruslan 16y agoAh.. MASM, AFD, Peter Norton's PC Programmer's Bible... anybody remembers how that first hyper-link based helpfile was called with all the INTs and stuff ? Although I studied programming (I was 13) one of those Soviet IBM System/360 clones in FORTRAN I did not like it. I was pretty much fascinated with Ataris which started to popup in USSR in late 80th, so I learnt 6502 assembly soon after I put my hands on one of 130XE. When IBM PCs came in I learnt x86 asm, then C and C++, but much much later :-)
- austinchang 16y agoLearning simple logic gates in LOGO making the turtle go around a path... do kids still do that today or is it much fancier?