I started out with BBC BASIC on my Dad's model B when I was 7 or 8. I remember reading a book called "Structured Programming" or suchlike, and hardly used a GOTO again - BBC BASIC was reasonably advanced for its time in having DEF PROC and DEF FN.
From that I progressed to an original IBM PC AT (still got the Model M keyboard from it), using QuickBASIC at first, then QuickC. Then my Dad got a 486sx20 with a stratospheric 16mb of ram. Kept going with the C and some assembler on DOS, messed around with OS/2 2.1 and REXX as well, and then got Slackware Linux 2.1 in 1994. I messed around with all sorts - C, lisp, x86 assembler, C++, shell scripts.
I've programmed professionally, using Delphi, Java, C++, Perl, Python and C#, for 15 years.
From that I progressed to an original IBM PC AT (still got the Model M keyboard from it), using QuickBASIC at first, then QuickC. Then my Dad got a 486sx20 with a stratospheric 16mb of ram. Kept going with the C and some assembler on DOS, messed around with OS/2 2.1 and REXX as well, and then got Slackware Linux 2.1 in 1994. I messed around with all sorts - C, lisp, x86 assembler, C++, shell scripts.
I've programmed professionally, using Delphi, Java, C++, Perl, Python and C#, for 15 years.