Lisa Assembler: I was really young and only capable of typing in examples from the manual and books I had taken out of the library. I liked the pre-made graphics routines best.
GWBASIC/QBASIC: I had lots of fun making games with these languages. It was very easy to conceptualize a program as a sequence of steps at that age.
C/C++: I'd bought one of those "Learn to Program Games in 24 Hours" books. It took a little longer than that with school and everything, but my friends thought it was pretty cool.
Perl: Wow. You changed everything. I started to think about programming as a language rather than a set of formal instructions. I had a lot of fun making games, bots, and my first "web log" script.
PHP: I had given up programming for a while when I decided I wanted to get into music. But when that failed I was able to pick you up and walk into a job that really turned things around for me and kicked off my career. You were really easy to learn.
Python: You introduced me to concepts I hadn't heard of before in a way that was approachable.
Lisp: You spoiled me. I love conditions and restarts, CLOS, and real symbolic debugging. I come home to you after a long day of work and smile. You make programming fun.
GWBASIC/QBASIC: I had lots of fun making games with these languages. It was very easy to conceptualize a program as a sequence of steps at that age.
C/C++: I'd bought one of those "Learn to Program Games in 24 Hours" books. It took a little longer than that with school and everything, but my friends thought it was pretty cool.
Perl: Wow. You changed everything. I started to think about programming as a language rather than a set of formal instructions. I had a lot of fun making games, bots, and my first "web log" script.
PHP: I had given up programming for a while when I decided I wanted to get into music. But when that failed I was able to pick you up and walk into a job that really turned things around for me and kicked off my career. You were really easy to learn.
Python: You introduced me to concepts I hadn't heard of before in a way that was approachable.
Lisp: You spoiled me. I love conditions and restarts, CLOS, and real symbolic debugging. I come home to you after a long day of work and smile. You make programming fun.