Comments on: How did I get started in software development?

By: Kojack

Kojack — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:52:35 +0000

Logo was my third language, I started in Microsoft Basic on the TRS-80 then learnt Forth.

I still have a fondness for stack based languages (and I still use a HP calculator with reverse polish lisp).

I think C++ was around my 30th-40th language.

By: syedhs

syedhs — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:03:50 +0000

Logo was also one of my first languages, along with BASICA – followed by GWBASIC. I think Logo is very intuitive to encourage young children to start programming. Ah.. some kids nowadays had started programming in C++

By: Aras Pranckevicius

Aras Pranckevicius — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:23 +0000

Mmm… ZX Spectrum… memories…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:26:18 +0000

@Paul: Yeah, I’ve done a ton of SQL but I guess I don’t really think of it as a programming language, same with things like XSLT.

@Baz: yep I never said I wrote it alone, just that it was the first thing I remember writing

By: Bazlurgan

Bazlurgan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:57:15 +0000

What was the first real program you wrote?

A text adventure game on the Spectrum with a mixture of line-drawn and simple sprite graphics. I was highly influenced by games like The Hobbit and the Fighting Fantasy books at the time

…That’s Co-wrote…. That is, if you are refering of course to our Alucard games on the Speccy. I deserve a slight credit, after all it is one of my few early attempts at programing

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:50:35 +0000

Wow!! That good old Turtle from Logo, man I remember that.
And the Steve Jackson/Ian Livingstone books, I used to love them. I had over twenty five green spines lined up on my bookshelf when I left Africa, and when my parents moved over they had donated them all to the school library – I was gutted!

I would have expected to see SQL in that language list, what with all the business software background you have.