You always remember your first. This list of common paths people
  have taken when learning programming languages is very
  interesting.* This, of course, is a list of an older generation,
  as most of these "first languages" are considered obsolete in
  today's programming environments and today's "firsts" are going
  to be different. [I expect a future website like this to have
  things like LUA, Javascript, Python, PHP, Perl, HTML (ok not a
  real language but whatever), etc) Still though, it's amazing
  when one goes backwards-in-time from the language they first
  learned, to see where its roots are.* As BASIC for my Tandy
  Color Computer 2 was "My first", I was surprised to realize that
  it was originally a replacement for FORTRAN; and looking at the
  way FORTRAN does formulas, explains why Microsoft Excel came so
  darned easily to me.* it's nearly the same.* [1]#mindblown I've
  learned other languages than the ones in this family but
  honestly, until today, I didn't even realize these particular
  three are in the same family.* [probably because Excel
  spreadsheets aren't considered programming]
  http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FirstLanguageLearned

References

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  1. https://plus.google.com/s/%23mindblown

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