was Python your 1st or 2nd language?

[Skaperen]

what ordinal language number was Python for you? it was probably around 20th or 30th for me, i would only want to count languages i have written usable code in. i have long forgotten so many of them that i cannot give an accurate number. and many were distinct machine/assembly languages fixing and replacing system code in many cases. i've probably read about as many more languages than i have coded in.

one of my favorites was an early object-oriented language named CLU. but at the time i could find no compiler for it so it ended up not counted as a language i've coded in. i had a book on it, somewhere, but i can't find it now.

my big curiosity is in those for whom Python is their 1st or 2nd language, for those who learned Python 2nd, what language was 1st (the language you used when learning to program)?

[DeaD_EyE]

I started with Basic on Amiga 500.
As I moved to PC, I used QBasic, which was delivered together with MS DOS.

After long time I decided to host game servers on Linux Machines.
So I needed to fiddle out everything and after I time I started with
automating all tasks with shell scripting (updating, start/stop, synchronizing).

The big pain point were always paths with white space inside.
After getting deeper and deeper in Bash Scripting, I switched over to Python.
This was a good decision.

Python was not my first language, but this language helped me to understand programming better.
Then I started to ask questions about Python internals. Then I needed to understand C better.

[ichabod801]

It took me a while to figure it out, but it looks like 10th out of 14.

[metulburr]

Im new to the field....for me i guess i would say python was my 2nd, but i abandoned the first language (C++) after I realized how much i like python better. I say "guess" because i really only learned some basics in C++ and never did anything worthwhile. So in some ways i would call python my first language i did anything in. I havent had the need yet after 8 years to go to another language. Ill dabble here and there in other languages, but i just dont like them as much as python. I only did C++ first because it was being spoken about as the "ultimate language" of all languages. But after comparing and contrasting c++ and python, python was inevitably more attractive to me. I knew python could not do some things c/c++ can, but i did not and still not care as i just do some day to day tasks.

[arnavb]

Python -> JS -> C++ -> back to Python ;P

[ichabod801]

Oh, missed the second question. My first language was BASIC, on an HP-85.

[Placebo]

I am brand new to this whole world. I am starting out with Python and Java.
I wonder what People would recommend as a 3rd language 'on the side'?
I will soonst start studying Computer science and it seems that mostly C++ is being used at colleges and universities?
Also, is it even al right/recommendable to learn a few different languages simultan or would it be more adviceable to learn one by one?

[ichabod801]

C++ is fine as a third language, but if you are learning it for college, I would check with your college first. See what they recommend. I would also suggest Lisp. It is in many ways different from the other languages on your list, and I think having that different perspective on programming to be a good thing.

I would not recommend learning two languages at the same time, but often you have to, especially in educational contexts. When I was an undergrad I was being taught Lisp and C++ at the same time, and when I was in grad school I was being taught R and SAS at the same time.

[Larz60+]

I took a look at python in the mid 1990's after attending a talk at CNRI in Reston, Virginia, (my office was in Herndon, VA at the time). I was curious and played with it a bit, but couldn't use it for my work so soon dropped it (we weren't allowed to use any free software, Management had been well trained by the High Priced Computer software firms that anything free must be junk).

I guess by this time, I had programmed in at least 20 major programming languages ( Had been doing it for almost 30 years at that time ).

I didn't pick it in earnest until 2013. I was writing some U.S. Patent search software, and almost all of the example code that I found was written in Python, so I decided to learn it, and after 33 years of mainly 'C' addiction, found something worthy of replacing (for the most part) 'C' in my life. Since then, the only code that I have written that was not Python was for embedded system applications. I've never tried to do one of these in python, mainly because of interrupt servicing, but I'd like to try it one day.

[Truman]

First and the only one ( excluding some Pascal in high-school that I forgot lol). I'm an economist by training and thought it would be a good language for me to pick. Planning to stick to it for next xy years. :)