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...I was doing my computer engineering course at the time ('78) and we learnt PDP-8 machine code (Octal if i remember correctly), ICL System-4 machine code (hex) & Assembly, BASIC & COBOL.
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I guess this should count as BASIC, tho... Good ol' Apple IIe.
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There were 2 inspirations for me. Digital Vax Basic was a definite influence, but another real driving force was Digital's Dr. Logo drawing program.
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I remember automating many of the manual processes at a place I worked and set up a menu to allow staff to select which program / process they wanted to run. All handled using batch files. I then got into QBasic and simple programs. And the rest as they say is history 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I see that most of the developers have started/inspired with BASIC.
This means to that most of the developers here are pretty much old and experienced.
Don't tell me that even new developers start their career from BASIC. 
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Anurag Gandhi wrote: most of the developers here are pretty much old and experienced
We good ones, yes.
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GW-BASIC. And I'm 26...
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I use 1TBS
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You raise an interesting question - if you were going to try to teach a schoolkid programming, what language would you start with?
I'd have thought BASIC, though these days maybe Scratch would be a natural choice. But Scratch is too new for many people to have gotten into a professional career yet.
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I, along with all my colleagues, started with C language.
And I started 14 years back with C (Turbo C++ IDE at that time).
I am not sure about which language are being taught in schools and colleges to start with programming (not scripting ).
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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langiage? Really? No spell-checker, @Chris-Maunder?
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Internet. Websites & Web pages.
During my college days, I fooled more than bunch of guys by loaded a dummy page(like a portal page using HTML with some js) & told them that as a live site. Those idiots believed me at first couple of times as they didn't know about address-bar of Internet Explorer. And that machine was without Internet. My HTML skill(?) was unbelievable at that time.
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My father was a High School teacher and he had taken a continuing-ed class on Computer Programming. I found the FORTRAN-IV textbook on his shelf and just started reading. It immediately made sense to me and I was intrigued with computers from then on. Years later when I had a chance to take a programming class in High School (FOCAL and BASIC on a PDP-8 with a TTY and 4K of RAM) I jumped at the chance, and that got my whole career rolling. My father was amused because he totally bounced off of programming.
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As an amateur radio hobbyist we made an S100 buss computer and I recognized writing software was far more fun than having to unsolder bad memory sockets (we were to cheap to buy gold plated sockets)as a result thermal creep caused the ram chips to unplug themselves. After my friend worked on the bad cheap sockets I decided writing the software was much more fun. Although, I still do the hardware but 90% of the time I am a "code monkey"!
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Maybe the most cryptic and powerful language ever, APL.
APL = A Programming Language developed in the 1960s by Kenneth E. Iverson.
In 1973, IBM released APL.SV for the IBM System/370.
Later integrated into the MUSIC/SP system.
My trance with APL ended with Data Structures with Pascal.
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Ah well, it lives on in K/KDB+ and the world of Goldman Sachs.
I appreciate how APL taught me to think about (gigantic) collections (dbs).
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... for those of us who remember it.
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It almost inspired me to stop developing ...
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TI-89 programmable calculator. 8088 Assembler and Forth were my next two languages.
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I had an electronic (American Megatronics) typesetter. I was just curious what made it work. I ended up learning about CPM and how to code machine language.
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Punched instructions into punch cards with a stylus in High School 1971 for 200 pound educational computer.
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Nah, I'm kidding, but seeing how many girls asked me for help with BASIC, and then Pascal, and even Lisp sure helped seal the deal.
Even after learning several languages, it was a small VAX BASIC program that landed me my wife.
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No particular technology inspired me to become a developer. I just fell in love with the whole idea of designing a solution the computer could follow.
At that time all I had was Fortran and assembler and a huge computer run from a punched card reader. Nothing inspiring there.
An artist does not seek inspiration from his tools - usually.
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a trade show was in town, first time to see GALAGA on a black and green screen! my dad bought me one and discovered BASIC..first program was a kilometer long just to show a dot on the screen jump and draw a circle!
then when on to GW-BASIC, assembly (i did not like it), then Turbo Basic, then Turbo Pascal, c++ then when into database with dbase 3 Plus, foxbase, foxPRO, Clipper then i was blown away the first time i saw Visual Basic 3.0!! and the rest is history!
Now happily using c# and (cough) java for android development 
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Wow! Same track here!
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
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Trash-80 BASIC and TI BASIC on a TI 99-4A. Still have the old TI programming manual for a keepsake. Also have an old TRS80 Model 100 portable in the closet. The old thing still works. Graduated up to dBase II and Lotus macros and Wang Glossaries. And then somehow ended up driving a truck for a living. 
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