Survey Results - Is the programming language you first learned one of the top 20 most popular?

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Do you have to make a survey

HaBiX3-Oct-12 0:18

HaBiX

3-Oct-12 0:18

..even if it's totally pointless??

Re: Do you have to make a survey

RugbyLeague3-Oct-12 0:51

RugbyLeague

3-Oct-12 0:51

Any philosophers care to answer that?

Re: Do you have to make a survey

yafan5-Oct-12 10:02

yafan

5-Oct-12 10:02

Did you have to post your question?

Re: Do you have to make a survey

Michael Bergman5-Oct-12 12:48

Michael Bergman

5-Oct-12 12:48

Especially if it is pointless.

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ALGOL 60

Victor Nijegorodov2-Oct-12 23:03

Victor Nijegorodov

2-Oct-12 23:03

I seem to be a very old person here... Big Grin | :-D

My first language was Algol 60 in 1975-1976. The second one was Fortran (IV and CERN editions) in 1976.

Re: ALGOL 60

Rob Marsden3-Oct-12 12:37

Rob Marsden

3-Oct-12 12:37

Join the club (Geriatric Programmers United). Apart from some stats work on a KDF9 using Autocode in the mid 60s, Algol 60 was the first language I earned my bread and butter with. That would be in 1968. I also used some NEAT assembler to drive a 24bit parallel interface we had designed and build, to connect a 250kW alternator up for real time analysis. All good stuff in those days.

I am well past retirement age, but am still earning my bread and butter at the same game. Though now it's C++, PHP, JavaScript and the like. She Who Must be Obeyed thinks I should retire, but I still enjoy it too much (the programming, that is).

Rob Marsden

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Re: ALGOL 60

Falkir6-Oct-12 23:41

Falkir

6-Oct-12 23:41

Here's another OM.
I started programming in ALGOL and PL/M to arouse an SBC 80/10, one of Intel's first processor boards. Now it is mostly C++ which I make my bread with.

Started with Basic..

VallarasuS2-Oct-12 20:29

VallarasuS

2-Oct-12 20:29

It's always good to start with Basic('s) Wink | ;)

at my eighth grade,

However I hardly remember anything! Point(,) in csharp translates to Location(,) I believe...

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♥…ЯҠ…♥2-Oct-12 20:19

♥…ЯҠ…♥

2-Oct-12 20:19

I dont know how to measure the popularity of programming language Poke tongue | ;-P

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I learned C and C++ at first.I hope its still among the Laugh | :laugh:

popularity list.

Thanks and Regards,

RK_PRABAKAR

modified 3-Oct-12 1:34am.

Assemblers

freedeveloper2-Oct-12 8:19

freedeveloper

2-Oct-12 8:19

Assembler 8080, Z80 were my first language, I wondering that assembler are in position 22 today Smile | :)

Re: Assemblers

pasztorpisti3-Oct-12 11:41

pasztorpisti

3-Oct-12 11:41

22?? I'm also an assembly starter but I hardly believe I could get a good job with it... I loved asm and reverse engineering too.

KDF9 Mercury autocode

Rob Marsden2-Oct-12 6:10

Rob Marsden

2-Oct-12 6:10

My first was "KDF9 Mercury autocode", but then Algol 60 became available and what a revelation Algol68 was when it arrived (so many new ways to do things wrong).

Rob in the West Riding

Pointless

Rob Grainger2-Oct-12 0:42

Rob Grainger

2-Oct-12 0:42

This is one of the worst constructed polls I've seen here, and that's scaping the barrel.

1. There is no list of the 20 most popular languages.
2. The Tiobe list is skewed to languages popular now.
3. It provides no meaningful information to anyone.

Try harder next time.

Re: Pointless

chriselst2-Oct-12 2:38

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2-Oct-12 2:38

Rob Grainger wrote:
Try harder next time.

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Re: Pointless

Peter N Roth2-Oct-12 5:40

Peter N Roth

2-Oct-12 5:40

"It's for FUN, Rob"

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Re: Pointless

RugbyLeague2-Oct-12 6:16

RugbyLeague

2-Oct-12 6:16

"2. The Tiobe list is skewed to languages popular now"

Isn't that the point?

Re: Pointless

Rob Grainger3-Oct-12 1:15

Rob Grainger

3-Oct-12 1:15

Fair point.

Re: Pointless

Rob Grainger3-Oct-12 5:03

Rob Grainger

3-Oct-12 5:03

Although, with that point in mind, maybe it would have been easier to ask folk their age?

Re: Pointless

Chris Maunder2-Oct-12 9:13

Chris Maunder

2-Oct-12 9:13

Quote:
or the sake of the survey we'll use this list as our Top 20

Feel free to send in your poll suggestions anytime, Rob.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Re: Pointless

Rob Grainger3-Oct-12 1:13

Rob Grainger

3-Oct-12 1:13

Ah, I just noticed that "this" was a link - it didn't exactly stand out. Maybe there's a requirement to make links stand out a bit more there.

COBOL | Fortran

Nagy Vilmos1-Oct-12 23:45

Nagy Vilmos

1-Oct-12 23:45

Me old...

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Re: COBOL | Fortran

Jim Worden5-Oct-12 3:42

Jim Worden

5-Oct-12 3:42

Me old too. Learn COBOL then Fortran, Basic (on a teletype 33), Assembler (Burroughs Medium Systems, B263, Z80), ALGOL, SDL/UPL, C, C++, sjioasr.. Sorry, no longer can type. Hands hurt from knuckles dragging on ground. Must go hunt meat.

We had LOGO at school

User 48220331-Oct-12 23:09

User 4822033

1-Oct-12 23:09

But the first language I did in uni was Java.

modified 6-Apr-21 21:01pm.

Started My first Language in C

Sk. Razibul Islam1-Oct-12 21:05

Sk. Razibul Islam

1-Oct-12 21:05

Started My first Language in C

Re: Started My first Language in C

Rob Grainger2-Oct-12 0:43

Rob Grainger

2-Oct-12 0:43

0. Surely the question was which language you learned first, not the language you used to write your first language.

1. How many languages have you finished?

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Option	Votes	%
Yes	1,352	76.86
No	362	20.58
I never learned a programming language.	45	2.56
Total	1,759	100%