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Re: Say the truth - you're it for the money, aren't you? OriginalGriff16-Mar-15 9:07 OriginalGriff 16-Mar-15 9:07  They give me "injunctions" and "cease-and-desist" letters... Money would be a nice change! Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... This poll should be revised, IMHO... Mario Vernari15-Mar-15 21:49 Mario Vernari 15-Mar-15 21:49  My very first "program" was on a Texas pocket calculator (was a TI-57 programmable). At that time (late '70) there was almost nothing else for a "normal" teenager. However, the list should be revised because 40 years ago there were a small set of choices, unless you were some super-scientist or so... Re: This poll should be revised, IMHO... Slacker00716-Mar-15 3:20 Slacker007 16-Mar-15 3:20  Most of the polls are put together with little thought. I agree with you comment. Other - VB6 den2k8815-Mar-15 21:31 den2k88 15-Mar-15 21:31  Old school, simple procedural language. Geek code v 3.12 GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X // No comment My mom... Sander Rossel15-Mar-15 21:03 Sander Rossel 15-Mar-15 21:03  I was living at home and failed my last year at university because I was to busy playing World of Warcraft. Needless to say my parents weren't amused. My mom said, and I quote, "You're going to find a job, you don't have a choice. Either you find one or I'll find one for you. I know they need people at [software company my parents had just sold]" and so I applied for a trainee position, and that was the start of my IT career And for the record, I've been clean from World of Warcraft for about five years now and I still got my university degree Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile. Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Regards, Sander Re: My mom... manchanx16-Mar-15 0:01 manchanx 16-Mar-15 0:01  AND your epix! Recursion: see Recursion. It wasn't a language OriginalGriff15-Mar-15 21:02 OriginalGriff 15-Mar-15 21:02  It was the whole idea: whirring tape decks; piles of punch cards; serious looking people in glasses smoking, and looking at printouts. It was clear that this was indoor work, with no heavy lifting. I wanted in! It was 5 or so years after that that I "met" my first computer (ICL 1902 running GEORGE III) at university and was taught my first computer language: COBOL. I suspect that if COBOL had been taught when I first found out computers even existed, I'd have gone into a different career altogether... Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay... Re: It wasn't a language AlexCode15-Mar-15 21:45 AlexCode 15-Mar-15 21:45  That's basically it but some years later I came to know about computers because my neighbor got one got his birthday. I was around 8 at the time and the machine was a ZX Spectrum +[^]. One year later, and due to my instant fascination for the thing, my mother bought me what came to be my first computer and where I wrote my first lines of code: Timex 2048[^]. And all this was roughly 30 years ago... I'm old! Re: It wasn't a language Ri_17-Mar-15 0:49 Ri_ 17-Mar-15 0:49  It wasn't a language for me either. I'd only worked on dumb terminals, as PCs were still on the way. I was doing a secretarial course and heard other students talking about making an circle move across the screen. You could TELL computers what to do?!! I was fascinated. Swapped out my "Business Documentation" module for the programming module, about a day's worth of QBasic, and was hooked. Later I did a programming course and met the love of my life, C. PDP & HP User 5924115-Mar-15 20:21 User 59241 15-Mar-15 20:21  Started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11[^] and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_9845C[^] It went downhill from there except when I discovered pointers. Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell modified 16-Mar-15 2:28am. Option missing ..Event driven koolprasad200315-Mar-15 19:20 koolprasad2003 15-Mar-15 19:20  I was attracted towards programming due to UI, I have seen Visual basic in 2009 first time, it is a third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) by Microsoft. Before that I was try to code with C, BASIC, PASCAL but due to Black IDE it is not so attractive But VB made me PROGRAMMER/DEVELOPER I think here Option missing ..Event driven Vote for VB Find More .Net development tips at : .NET Tips The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. An Object Oriented langiage Sibeesh Passion15-Mar-15 18:29 Sibeesh Passion 15-Mar-15 18:29  An Object Oriented langiage Please check the spelling ==================!!!====================!!!======================== So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things. Kindest Regards Sibeesh http://sibeeshpassion.com/ Assembly language Mike Hankey15-Mar-15 18:13 Mike Hankey 15-Mar-15 18:13  on one of these[^] for the first year of my programming career. Boss would come around occasionally and collect 5-1/4 floppy disks from me and the other developer and put them on his 5MB hard drive and build the product and when he started it up sounded like a space ship, we could hear it in the next room. Ah the old days! New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me. I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless. Re: Assembly language den2k8815-Mar-15 22:38 den2k88 15-Mar-15 22:38  I salute you Geek code v 3.12 GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X // No comment Re: Assembly language Nemanja Trifunovic16-Mar-15 2:40 Nemanja Trifunovic 16-Mar-15 2:40  Glad to see some real programmers still around in this age of JavaScript frameworks. utf8-cpp

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