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What was the first widely used programming language? (self.trivia)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Ategon to c/trivia

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Widely used is pretty vague.

So I'll say BASIC. It was the first language taught in my high school, which seems to imply "wide" use

[–] BenLloydPearson 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm completely biased because this is what I started on, but Texas Instruments calculators used BASIC for decades, long after it was no longer relevant anywhere else. For a product that ancient to use the language, it must have been popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup!

Back in the eighties, TI made a pocket computer with a qwerty keyboard and these weird shaped memory cartridges. BASIC was the default language for them, though you could get a cartridge that allowed Pascal instead.

I got one after I did a summer course at a local college between freshman and sophomore years. It was kinda useless for anything much because the screen was a single line lol. But I set up a little rng program on it for d&d where I could press a given key and it would roll preset dice combos. Expensive toy, basically (pun intended)