What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Les Bell]

(07-09-2015 02:23 PM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  CP/M, impressive! My friends kid me that I use archaic operating systems and languages but I haven't touched CP/M since 1983. I started my computer consulting career in CP/M mostly programming in CBASIC.

I actually have a CBASIC version of that program, but I won't bore everyone by posting it. It's noticeably different from the Microsoft BASIC version in that CBASIC had a WHILE statement and didn't rely on GOTO - or line numbers, for that matter. It also used decimal arithmetic, making it particularly suitable for financial applications. And in the comments, I noted that its RANDOMIZE statement uses the delay in responding to a preceding INPUT statement to seed the RND function.

Gordon Eubanks, who wrote it, went on to found Symantec - from which he's done very nicely, thank you.