macOS What was learning your first programming language like for you?

[sushi]

First languages: MICROSOFT BASIC 1.0 (TRS-80 LEVEL II) AND TRS-80 LEVEL I BASIC. The Level II was created by BILL GATES personally, when Microsoft had exactly 2 employees. SUPERB programming language by the way. At that time I had many pieces of software from the hand of Bill Gates, and I will tell they were all stellar bits of programming.

Agree.

Unfortunately, BASIC gets a bad rap these days. IMHO, it is a good language.

There are many variations out there. One version comes to mind. In 1985, I purchased an HP-71B computer. It had a built in BASIC language that was awesome at the time. You could do recursion, dynamic allocation of memory, and some other really nice features.