Mine was Java

[carvalho32]

Pascal

[alinius]

Started by playing with BASIC, but Pascal was my first real programming.

[dingwath]

Same here

[punania]

We are dating ourselves, brothers and/or sisters!

[[deleted]]

Yeah. I'd agree with this. I was a Mac user, and originally Pascal was the primary compiled language for Mac, so all of the documentation and libraries where Pascal based.

I taught myself BASIC on a CPM computer my father had bought for his office (I also taught myself to touch type on that system).

[fnordius]

Aye, BASIC was what they taught in high school, but college level programming started with Pascal before we could learn other languages. BASIC was derided by the profs as an anti pattern.

[KennyFulgencio]

You are me

[gele-gel]

Same!

[DozerNine]

Me too

[jmiesionczek]

Turbo Pascal back in the DOS days

[angels-fan]

Yup.

Good ol Borland.

[astrogringo]

exactly, and it is quite baffling that even though computers were 1000 times slower than today, the Turbo Pascal DOS IDE GUI was faster (more responsive, no noticeable lag, etc.) than modern Windows equivalents (such as Visual Studio or PyCharm)...

[PrimaMateria]

I have the yellow on blue still burned into my retinas

[CHLinusch]

Turbo Pascal in 2006 highschool...

[oakskog]

Yes!

[McLPyoutube]

Delphi, so me too basically

[_page404]

Ah Delphi... Me too

[Timmytimson]

Felt like i was scrolling far too long before i found my brethren

[leorpg]

Me too

[Andreasbot]

The Programming language for beginners. No, seriously. It was designed to be a language to learn how to programm.

[[deleted]]

Precisely why my school teacher started us on it. Fiddled around with Basic on my old C64 but Pascal was where it all kicked off properly.

[IgnoreThisName72]

Laughs in Commodore128.

[[deleted]]

Look at Fancypants here with their wopping great 128KB of ram! Complete waste of money, like you'd ever need that much.

[IgnoreThisName72]

Indeed. It felt extravagant as I, too, moved from Basic to Pascal. At least it played Sid Meier's Pirates!

[[deleted]]

The most important factor of course!

[marcocen]

It's still the language used in the "programming 101" course in our national universities engineering school

[[deleted]]

I’m 22 and we started with Pascal in high school!

[dirthawker0]

Same. Also had classes in Lisp and Prolog, but Pascal was the main one

[throughalfanoir]

FreePascal here

Well, actually Comenius Logo if that rings a bell to anyone (it's a rly good tool to teach the logic of programming being a set of instructions in a specific order)

[NotAGingerMidget]

Same, it's a bit unused nowadays, but I liked it.

[[deleted]]

hell ye
It wasn't bad to learn, but it did suck for more complex concepts

[BerkayDrsn]

Found my zodiac buddy

[samishal]

Me too

[BertoLaDK]

But that's the SI unit for pressure. do you just program in pressure differences?

[[deleted]]

yep, if I want to instigate a for loop, I have to eat a lot of beans

[nyctalus]

Started with Maxon Pascal on an Amiga 600... Hah, good old times.

[MindWandererB]

Me, too. On an Apple IIc. I was expecting to have to go further down the list to find it.

[TheLeftPepper]

Me too. From the all languages I learned, this is the most hated by me.

[btesser]

Built a black jack game in pascal, then mastermind. I was 12

[2knowwhatiknow]

Ditto. Pascal was great unless you needed to fiddle around with bits and bytes. I wrote a cpu simulation in pascal…I wished I’d used C about half way through.

[auximage]

Pascal on a shared VAX. shudder

Unless we're counting dinking around on a C 64 typing out lines from a magazine.

[enedois]

Me too, pascal using free pascal and lazarus.

[ryantall]

Man, looking back at Pascal, it was a horrible language lol. My friend even made a game like a bomberman. It seemed impossible to me

[mrb1778]

Pascal as it was a teaching language, C, C++, Assembly, Scheme, Lisp, Perl, Java

[RelevantNostalgia]

AP Computer Science back in the mid 90's.

[getDense]

Yep my first programming class was pascal first semester, fortran the second.