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What Was Your First Programming Language?
07-04-2015, 09:51 PM
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RE: What Was Your First Programming Language?
For a beginning I was not choosing the language, I was just lucky to approach a machine and then used what was available.

Computers
ZX81: Basic / Z80 assembly
Oric Atmos: Basic / 6502 assembly
Atari ST: C and 68000 assembly (best processor ever)

Finally started to work on PC.
- learned Pascal at school and was so frustrated I didn't know C++
- learned C++ and OO with Borland C++ then moved on MS MFC and now Qt

Calculators
TI57 > HP15C > HP Prime (basic meh) > Hp 50g uRPL (and deliberate decision to not learn sysRPL and/or assembly)

All the rest
The list is long but this basically what I started with and after all these years I came to the conclusion that the language is less important than the libraries. MFC was a pain and I didn't want to learn .NET which I found too cumbersome and too MS proprietary solution. At the moment I do a lot of coding on Qt and started recently QML which was surprisingly good after you understand how to structure an app.
I have no nostalgia for "good old time", nowadays solutions are better, thanks god.
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