What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

WATFIV FORTRAN 1978 in college we where a small campus and did not have our own computer, so our programs where submitted as RJE jobs to an IBM mainframe and we got back the results the next morning. We started with mark sense cards, which is very cumbersome, but discovered that the business department had a couple keypunch machines so we started punching cards instead.