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My first programming language was Java. Well kind of. It was Karel the robot https://compedu.stanford.edu/karel-reader/docs/java/en/chapter1.html

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Hyperscript but then Karel too!

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mine c#, you can tell was microsoft cult

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Logo. It’s a turtle with a pen 🐢✍️

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I can't disclose mine after this paper. I will say it's not python and it's much more machine integrated. I'm half joking but this paper does make it a risk to disclose more than it used to be (I have other boomer tells)

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while (true) turnLeft();

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I tried to learn Ruby on Rails first. In retrospect, that might not have been the best approach.

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Technically Fortran. But the one that stuck was JS, unlearning/relearning some things in Golang nowadays. Had a python run for a while, but v rusty now. Didn’t help that the other language I played around with a lot was solidity which had similar syntax.

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This is fascinating I’m thinking about my first programming language and how it affected me. I learned Java first and only had 3 months of practical experience but I can still remember certain conventions And makes me think in general about how we learn. And how strong the mold is when we learn something brand new Is it why so many still love the music from our teenage years?

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Not sure if the argument has weight. Esp since it was published in 1980, and at that time, few people actually had time to feel native in multiple computer languages. Borrowing experience from human languages, I can say with confidence that multi-lingual people often switch their mental mode when they switch from one language to another. But I would argue that the environment you grow up as a dev, forms you. I know that some of my fixations come from coding on machines that were too slow, with very little memory, and later, over Internet connections that were too slow, too expensive and had very limited bandwidth.

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mine: Perl and Bash scripting. yep. explains a lot of things, actually.

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Wow Karel the robot is such a throwback

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