I read this a while back but I forgot how this is golden geek humor.
“1972 – Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.”
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What’s the first programming language that you’ve learned? My first one is C++
Well, depends how you defined ‘learned’, but I suppose TRS-80 basic. I didn’t actually write code in it, because I didn’t own a TRS-80. But I did buy a manual for it, I remember thinking how cool arrays were. Good times!
First programming language I remember learning was basic. I think we played with it on some apple 2e’s in gradeschool (like grade 4/5), and I remember being very very jealous my cousins had a Tandy computer.
We never had our real first computer till I was in grade 9. Probably a good thing, but I loved all things electronic.
You and your toys
Oh now that you’ve mentioned BASIC, I think that’s actually the first one I learned. That’s the one where you sort of draw lines on the screen, right?
You can, but I do not associate BASIC with line drawing in particular. I most associate BASIC with line numbers and GOTO statements;
10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD”
20 GOTO 10
Also, let’s see, REM (comments) and LET (ASSIGN), PEEK and POKE (direct memory access).
BASIC rocks. If you’re in grade four. Good times!