Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

[Ruud.Baltissen@abp.nl (Ruud Baltissen)]

Hallo Lee;

> I'll quit here for now, and see what others think.

People with another native language than English have one
disadvantage: all programming languages I know are based on English.

Regarding the language itself: any language is good as long as you
have a good tutorial and don't need complicated instructions to
perform something at all. This is one of the reasons I advise people
to start with Basic. A simple '10 print "Hallo"' is enough to archive
something.

I started programming in 1977 with Basic on a big computer with telex
typewriters as terminals. In 1985 I bought my first computer, a
Commodore 64, and soon started to use ML. But I often fall back to
Basic to do the dirty hacking, check-ups, etc.


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