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Discussion on: What was your first programming language and why?

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Thomas H Jones II

BASIC ...because, as a 7yo in 1977, there weren't a lot of options available for the TRASH80 family and Apple ][ at the time. Eventually moved on to assembler because otherwise everything I wanted to do was ungodly-slow. Later in middle- and highschool, we got some PASCAL. Wasn't till college that started getting some C exposure (and got to live through the fun of moving from K&R to to ANSI).

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Seth Corker

Do you still program today or are you more focused on technical enablement?

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Thomas H Jones II

Technical-enablement means that most of what I write are tools and automation rather than applications.