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Erik Lundevall Zara • Edited

The first programming language I learned was Basic for the ABC80 computer - without any access to such a computer - I got some programming books from my mother for ABC80 Basic. The first computer that I had access to fo real was a Commodore Pet, which I tried to enter my on-paper programs written with the ABC80 Basic - which did not work.
It was then I realized that there were different Basic dialects and Commodore Basic was pretty much inferior to the ABC80 Basic.

Second language after Basic was 6502 Assembler, followed by Forth I think.