What was your first programming language? What is/are your most used?
What was your first programming language? What is/are your most used?
My first was Matlab. Most used is probably python, and then you get into my professional niche, VHDL, C, TCL.
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Some type of BASIC came first along with Batch (if it counts) and later Visual Basic. All sorts of easy things that I fully advocate for as first languages in education. The next step for me was C/C++ and various different languages that are more learning examples than anything now like COBOL and Pascal. And then for school, I picked up Python, Java, C#, Ruby, and a smattering of ARM Assembler.
I use a lot of languages for school, but outside of that, depending on the research I'm doing, projects I'm working on, and other things, it varies between C++ (which I use for analytics and research stuff) and Python (which is much nicer for automation and interacting with distributed computing). Bash finds itself very close behind them for automation when I'm being too lazy to write Python.
It funny how quick the number of languages balloons, I tell myself I don't know that many, than I list everything I've programed at least one line in. Matlab, c/c++, c#, java, vhdl, verilog, tcl, python, whatever was built into excel, assembly (mips, arm, x86). If block diagram languages count, labview, sysml.
But above all, I'm sorry, but nothing is lazier than python.