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AMOS BASIC on the commodore Amiga was my first. First time I ever made a finished product and never really looked back.
As I got a little older and the Amiga died off I ended up using visual basic 6 for work. From there I've gone through vb.net, c# and JavaScript, but recently started on Java and find myself enjoying it a lot more.
As a fellow (former) dba, have to give a special shout-out to SQL, maybe more of an honorable mention for 'programming language' I suppose, but definitely where I feel most comfortable with the day to day stuff.
My first programming language was C++ but I never returned back to it. I experimented with lot of languages as a beginner before moving to web development and combination of PHP / JavaScript / Ruby (occasionally), but out of languages I have used so far I can say that Rust is the one I liked most.
I think there are few reasons for that:
Beside that I don't have some language I fell in love with - I try not to get too emotional about technologies I use but rather choose ones depending on the project (or feature) I'm working on.
The first code that I ever wrote was in Java. Your first "hello world" will always be special!
Definitely. I was pretty much copy pasting code at that time, and Java's verbosity doesn't help either as a beginner. It was months of shuffling between Python, Ruby, and JavaScript before I understood what I'm doing. And then it took about a year and a half before I found PHP, which I guess I can consider as the one I "loved".
I absolutely adore Python, but duck typing is something that outgrew me pretty quickly. PHP7 gave me the right balance with its OOP model and type-hinting. Never looked back!
I started with Delphi 5 back in 2001, then C#, PHP, Java, until I met JavaScript and stayed forever :)
Is there something about your first language that always holds a special place in your heart?
Yes I was copying everything in my notebook things like. color dialog.color() hahaha it was pretty fun.
My first hello world was written in C. I still love C, but when I saw haskell
and lisp for the first time I got attracted to it. My top 3 languages are:
Haskell
Python
C
C#
C++