What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Monte Dalrymple]

(07-03-2015 05:51 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  What was your first programming language?

Pretty sure it was RPN on a 9100A. In 1968 I was in junior high in the Math GATE program and learned to program the "$5000 electronic calculator" purchased for the program. I remember that the machine had a printer on the left side and a slot for our program cards on the right side, so I'm pretty sure it was the 9100A. I wrote a program to calculate and print out the square roots of the numbers 1 to 100. Unfortunately the high school GATE program didn't have a math option, so the next programming I did was FORTRAN on the CDC 6600 in the basement of Cory Hall at UC Berkeley, around 1975.

The latest program that I did, a couple of weeks ago, was in QBasic, to translate the .rom file for the 41C timer module into Verilog for loading into an FPGA block RAM.

But I still prefer assembly language: for the 41CL, Z80, 8051, AVR, etc.