OT: Look what I can do...

[AngleWyrm]

For me it was a TRS-80 at Radio-Shack in Bellevue Square Mall. I read the book in the mall, and it had the traditional
10 PRINT "Hello, World!"
It also told of the GOTO statment, and I got to wondering what would happen if I made the program go back to the beginning. So I went back into Radio Shack, and wrote:

10 PRINT "Hello, World!"
20 GOTO 10

The screen filled to overflowing and would have run forever! They had to shut it down! I was hooked.

[Fyron]

David E. Gervais said:
I'm still waiting for an 'Interpreted C language, I hate having to code, compile, run, code compile run,.. I miss the code, run, code, run, compile, share method.

Python might be what you are looking for. It is loosely based off of C++ and is interpreted. Unfortunately it lacks all of the fancy syntax characters, but it is an attempt to get away from all of that and have a more "natural" programming language, with white space syntax instead of explicit funky characters.

Or, you could always use PHP. It is much closer to C++ (and C) stylistically and is of course interpreted. You would have to use it through a browser, but there is no reason why you could not do things locally with it. Run some sort of web server that is cut off from the rest of the world, and viola!

[Instar]

David E. Gervais said:
aaaahm so we are taking a walk down memory lane and sharing our 'First' Programming experience..

For me it was Atari Basic on the Atari 800 Computer. Aaah, the good old ways of line numbering and GOTO, GOSUB.. But the Atari let you place multiple commands on one line so you could cheat.

On the PC My first programming was with GW-Basic which came with the computer and I eventually graduated to Quick Basic 4.5 which allowed me to 'compile executables' allthough it was still an interpreted language when coding.

I'm still waiting for an 'Interpreted C language, I hate having to code, compile, run, code compile run,.. I miss the code, run, code, run, compile, share method.

nuf said, Cheers!

You want an interpreted C? Dude. That is soooo wrong.
Like Fyron said, try Python.

Will said:

Ah, but there are objects. He clearly uses both the pre-defined cin and cout for standard input and standard output, respectively, and also uses the class ofstream for file output. Just because he hasn't created a class doesn't mean it's not OOP. I think Java has started to rot people's minds, making programmers think something is never OO unless you type "class foo" somewhere...

And I don't know about the rest of you, but I started in C, at 14 years old. A year later I learned "BASIC", but it was the version in my TI calculator, not this Visual nonsense. I technically still haven't "learned" VB, but really, do I need to? I can read the stuff, and if I'm ever asked to write it for some horrid reason... well, I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

Yeah, Will's right. Geo's program is at the very least object based.
Oh, and I think I was the one who told you to buy C for dummies (by Dan Gookin).

Just to put you all to shame, I know *all* of the following languages, each to varying amounts:
C/C++
C#
Java
J#
PHP (It can be compiled, PHP.NET)
Perl (it is more of a script though)
Java (J2SE, J2ME)
Fortran (77/95ish)
COBOL (old school hardcore!)
Intel IA32 Assembly
Visual Basic (.NET the best)
AppleBasic (Apple IIe baby!)
JavaScript (again, more of a script)
JCL (more of a script)
SQL (a query language, really)

Some of those I haven't used for a while, so I probably couldn't make a super huge program in each. You have to be using it to know it well. Right now, I'm deep into the internals of Java on the J2ME platform.
I plan on learning 64 bit assembly when I get a 64 bit computer. I hope to get Python learned sometime soon, and maybe some Ruby, Ada, or maybe Eiffel. Smalltalk would be nice too. D would be relatively easy to learn, so maybe I'll try that. Oh, and Visual Foxpro, and some Delphi would be nice too.
Yes, I'm a pitiful geek. But a well learned one!