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What Was Your First Programming Language?
07-04-2015, 11:17 AM
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language?
(07-04-2015 10:24 AM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  SNOBOL was a very interesting language.

I remember having written a tool in STRUBOL, a SNOBOL preprocessor which added some structured programming to it. The tool helped me to format my diploma thesis written on a 3270 terminal without German umlauts. It replaced ae with ä and was full of exception rules (e. g. leave 'Feuer' as is and don't change it to 'Feür'). The tool did a remarkable job. The output went into a formatting tool which in turn feed a gigantic laser printer.

To complete my above mentioned list of computer languages:

BASIC -> FORTRAN IV -> SIMULA -> STRUBOL (see above) -> Z80 assmbler -> C -> C++ -> COBOL 85 (on Tandem) -> TACL (Tandem Command Language) -> REXX (on OS/2) -> Java -> ABAP-OO.

The list is most probably incomplete as it contains mainly the languages I actually used (or still use) for my projects.

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