What Was Your First Programming Language?

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

My first language was WATFIV FORTRAN and similar to the previous post we submitted cards, but usually got the results the next day. We started off using mark sense cards, which where awful to work with, then we discovered the business department had a couple keypunches so we started punching our programs. One of out first exercises was to plot the trajectory of a canon ball fired from the top of a tower until it hit the ground. Anyone that that tested for altitude = 0 got a fat printout the next day. The system our programs where compiled and run on had a limit to the number of pages of printout and would abend if you exceeded it.