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6502 assembly came first, the hard way: I had to type in all the hex codes for the various instructions myself.
No convenient address labels to jump to: work out the hex target address by yourself if you want to jump anywhere.
Its 32 years ago by now so I guess the message title is right to a degree. Still: learning the hard way sure makes you learn the basics right enough.
6502 assembly, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Forth, 8051 assembly, PLM/51, C, Visual Basic, powerbuilder, T-SQL, ... and whatever come along in the future 
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I must be getting old to...
I started learning on a RadioShack kit... until my father allowed me to work with the TRS-80 Model I.
Then, Assembly, BASIC (also referred to as QBASIC at some point), Fortran, Pascal, C, C++, ...
Still dabble in Assembly from time to time; though it is for the ARM processor now. C/C++ is the primary language.
Processors .... that is another story. I've worked with far too many to really keep this message short.
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I started with BASIC on a Commodore 64, immediately followed by 6502 Assembler to extend BASIC
Regards
Thomas
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It was COBOL...
The first language they taught you on my Uni course was Cobol. On punched cards.
And the second was Fortran.
When you got to year 2, they started on "languages with curly brackets in" and taught you ALGOL. Which had no curly brackets in. Then Pascal, which didn't either.
There are times when I wonder why I went on that course...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Welcome to the 'hood, geezer. 
FORTRAN was my first language, BASIC a close second. My early languages also included IBM 370 assembly, 8085 assembly, and PL/I.
Software Zen: delete this;
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PDP 8 was my first assembler, then Z80 (which I then kept coming back to / being forced back to for the next 25 years in it's 64180/Z180 guise)
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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My first boss had a couple home-built PDP-8's. AFAIK they're still in working order.
I never did a lot of Z80, mostly 8080/8085 and then 8086.
Software Zen: delete this;
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next Pascal....
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First started with Commodore BASIC.
And still write in Commodore BASIC... 
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C64 for teh win 
(yes|no|maybe)*
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CBM Programming Studio rules! 
Did not know it until now. Will certainly use it!
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Thanks, there should be a new version released by the weekend.
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I started on the Vic 20 and I had a whole 3.5 Kb RAM to play with.
Fun times
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Ditto - difficult not to smile as I type this! 
CBM Basic on the unexpanded '5k' VIC was my beginning too...had my first computer all-nighter on day 1, checking for typos after typing "Rocket Command" and "Tank vs UFO" BASIC game programs out of the user manual.
Had a 12" black-and-white TV, but on special occasions I was allowed to connect it to the family's 14" color tv (woohoo - so that's what 'cyan' looks like!).
Moved to 6502 machine language/assembler after scouring department stores looking for a VICMON machine language monitor.
Doesn't seem like that long ago, but I guess it was!
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Will check it our for sure.
I just downloaded the current version. And it seems great!
Keep up the good work!!!
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Thanks for that, much appreciated!
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...Clipper?
For those younger around here: That was a compiler and extension of the programming language coming with dBase, a simple "database" for MS-DOS.
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I do remember it. Although I did not use it...
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My first paying job was in clipper...
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Yes, was my first paying job also.
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Yes! Clipper was great!
We are migrating some Clipper programs to ASP.NET in these months.
May be you think "He's mad", but i'm not the only one.
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As my father always says, "We could already do that in Clipper!".
It was his first language and if I should believe him the best language ever. LINQ, WPF, Rx, TPL, EF... It was all right there in Clipper (be it in slightly different format) 
I just laugh and nod... "Sure dad, Clipper is the best" 
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
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i learned first ansiC then c#.
working with asp.net and C#.
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