Learned to code in the mid-80's, Basic and Z80 FTW.
Followed up by plenty of Assembly (Amiga/PC), and systems level stuff using Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, C++ (MS-DOS), TP and C++ (Windows), C++ (UNIX), and many other stuff.
I was lucky enough that my early 90's university has exposed us to Prolog, Lisp, Oberon (and its descendants), Caml Light, Standard ML, Miranda.
Additionally the university library allowed me to dive into a parallel universe from programming ideas that seldom reach mainstream.
Which was great, not only did I learn that it was possible to marry systems programming with GC enabled languages, it was also possible to be quite productive with FP languages.
Unfortunately this seems to be yet another area that others only believe on its possibilities after discovering it by themselves.
Learned to code in the mid-80's, Basic and Z80 FTW.
Followed up by plenty of Assembly (Amiga/PC), and systems level stuff using Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, C++ (MS-DOS), TP and C++ (Windows), C++ (UNIX), and many other stuff.
I was lucky enough that my early 90's university has exposed us to Prolog, Lisp, Oberon (and its descendants), Caml Light, Standard ML, Miranda.
Additionally the university library allowed me to dive into a parallel universe from programming ideas that seldom reach mainstream.
Which was great, not only did I learn that it was possible to marry systems programming with GC enabled languages, it was also possible to be quite productive with FP languages.
Unfortunately this seems to be yet another area that others only believe on its possibilities after discovering it by themselves.