Here comes a new Friday social topic!

  1. What was the first computer you ever worked/played on?
  2. What was the first editor you used to write computer programs?
  3. What programming language did you write your first program in?
  4. How many days/months/years after you wrote your first program did you learn Lisp?
  5. What was your first Lisp?
  6. Which editor/IDE do you work with the most today?
  7. What programming languages do you work with the most today?
  8. Which Lisp do you work with the most today?
  • rhabarbaEnglish
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    4 months ago
    1. A C64, I believe.
    2. Turbo Pascal… or whatever their IDE was called.
    3. Turbo Pascal… or whatever the language was called. :-) (But I’m not entirely sure whether QBasic had beaten it by a week-or-so anymore.)
    4. Roughly, 20 years. I (kind of) regret that.
    5. Common Lisp, if we don’t accept Python as a Lisp.
    6. GNU Emacs, mostly.
    7. Rust and Go, but that’s mostly because Common Lisp still lacks a good integrated compiler/package manager/project management system that doesn’t start with “install Quicklisp, then…”. Roswell just does not work on most systems on which I had tried it.
    8. Common Lisp.