What's The First Language You Learned? [Archive]

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-07-2003, 10:07 PM

why isnt Binary up there... (you forgot that some peeps are older here and delt with atari's before the modern day languages.) and Baille.. why isnt that up there.. that was a heck of a gaming system for its time!

and what about delphi?

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-07-2003, 10:08 PM

and PHP and PERL and ActionScript(flash) and all those other goodies?

Paul Jr

12-07-2003, 10:10 PM

Yeah, there's a few you missed.

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-07-2003, 10:43 PM

What's The First Language You Learned? I put HTML up there but only because ENGLISH wasnt a choice.

Paul Jr

12-07-2003, 10:49 PM

Lmao!

I attempted to learn QBasic a while ago, but it's a bit too out-dated. I had trouble finding tutorials and compilers that matched... Plus, I heard it wasn't that good anyway. I'ma stick to good ol' C++ (As soon as I learn some).

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-08-2003, 12:07 AM

lol... yeah... there are some free compilers you can download. but no two compilers are alike...

iniquity101

12-08-2003, 09:43 AM

...while on the subject of C++, anyone know of any decent books that arent too pricey ?

DaiWelsh

12-08-2003, 09:54 AM

Hmm, I think strictly it was BASIC,CECIL, Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, C/C++, Assembler, Javascript, Java but I voted Pascal as that was the first one mentioned that I had formal training in, I dont count typing BASIC programs from magazines into an MZ80K as real programming :)

pyro

12-08-2003, 09:59 AM

Nor would HTML count as a programming language. Sure, it is a markup language, but it is a far cry from a programming language.

Robert Wellock

12-08-2003, 11:05 AM

Pascal in 1992.

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-08-2003, 05:55 PM

Originally posted by DaiWelsh
Hmm, I think strictly it was BASIC,CECIL, Pascal, Fortran, COBOL, C/C++, Assembler, Javascript, Java but I voted Pascal as that was the first one mentioned that I had formal training in, I dont count typing BASIC programs from magazines into an MZ80K as real programming :) Not once in his post or poll did he mention it was a programming language. it asks: "What was the first language you learned?" henceforth my first though was ENGLISH but html is a language too.. i guess u guys assumed it. even pyro fell to assumption. it asks what language. not programming language.

pyro

12-08-2003, 06:05 PM

No, I did not fall to that assumption. I was mearly pointing out a fact. I clearly read that he said language, and was commenting on DaiWelsh's comment "I dont count typing BASIC programs from magazines into an MZ80K as real programming", not the poll. I will say, however, that on a web developement forums, the assumption that you claim most have made would be the correct assumption to make. If the original poster truly wanted to know which spoken language we all learned first, they should have explicitly said that.

Pittimann

12-08-2003, 06:21 PM

Hi!

The fifth language I learned, dealt with programming. That one is also not available in the poll: Wordbasic (forgot the version number and so - it was in 1989)...

Whatever - I didn't reach perfection in any of the languages, I have learned (means: I am still learning) - not even my mother language...

Cheers - Pit

P.S.: I'm able to talk and satisfied with that

DaiWelsh

12-10-2003, 04:56 AM

Originally posted by Sux0rZh@jc0rz
Not once in his post or poll did he mention it was a programming language. it asks: "What was the first language you learned?" henceforth my first though was ENGLISH but html is a language too.. i guess u guys assumed it. even pyro fell to assumption. it asks what language. not programming language.

I think the selection of choices in the poll makes it a rather safe assumption, n'est ce pas? ;)

I think you menat to quote pyro rather than me anyway :p

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-10-2003, 07:04 AM

yes. yes i did. and if html and javascript are up there, then programming language would not be the assumption to make. "computer related language" would be the assumption to make.

pyro

12-10-2003, 07:20 AM

You were right about the HTML, but not about JavaScript. Had that been up there, programming lanugages would have still been the correct assumption to make.

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-10-2003, 08:23 PM

whatever floats ur boat. lol. javascript isnt a programming language to me.. its clientside scripting language.

Paul Jr

12-10-2003, 08:47 PM

I seriously want everyone to forgive me for this...

BUTTONS R KOOL!!! (http://www.aspfreeserver.com/pauljr/tests/buttonsrkool.html)

pyro

12-10-2003, 09:04 PM

Originally posted by Sux0rZh@jc0rz
javascript isnt a programming language to meWhat it is to you holds no bearing on what it actually is. :rolleyes:

Paul Jr. - This was not really the appropriate place to post that... Not even sure why you posted it at all.

Jeff Mott

12-10-2003, 09:17 PM

javascript isnt a programming language to me.. its clientside scripting languageWell, since Perl can run on a client machine just as easily as a server then it also can be considered a client-side scripting language, thus your statement implies that Perl is not a programming language. Nor would be Java.

It doesn't matter if the language is compiled or interpreted, or if it runs on your computer or someone elses. A JavaScript script is a collection of statements that get translated into machine instructions, thus it is a programming language.

...just to add to what Pyro said ;)

jeff_archer7

12-10-2003, 10:05 PM

The first one I learned was.... (oh Gosh this will show my age).... COBOL

jeff_archer7

12-10-2003, 10:12 PM

I used to type basic into a trs80 it came out before the commodore vic20 or 64.... it was fun....

yes Paul Jr.... what was with the button thing

COBOL rocks baby......... well not really I just thought I'de say it
:D

PeOfEo

12-10-2003, 10:29 PM

How much closer to machine lanaguage can you get? Lol.

Paul Jr

12-11-2003, 12:03 AM

Uhhh... yeah, sorry 'bout that. A bit hyper and all... many apologies. :o

Sux0rZh@jc0rz

12-11-2003, 07:07 AM

heya jeff, i got like 2 trs80's downstairs with 2 baille's(sp?) and a buncha other old gamin stuff. my stepdad buys it off ebay.. hesa collector kinda. and i have got to say that trs80's are annoying, but kewl.(kinda like a slower version of microsofts modern day computers..)