I rather enjoyed programming in BASIC back on my Commodore 64 and 8088. Sure, it sucks compared to modern languages, but at the time it was awesome. I guess the line numbers got annoying, but besides that, loads of fun. Sitting with my uncle programming games (er... typing the code from the magazine to create the game) on our Commodore 64 is what got me into programming. After that I learned Pascal, C++, C, delved into Delphi briefly, and then Perl and Javascript. Despite some huge gaping flaws (like lack of namespaces, no way to include other libraries inside a library, etc), Javascript is actually quite fun, and I love Perl to death. Perl just feels so expressive. I can understand why people hate it, but it lets me do what I want and stays out of the way. Ruby looks to be that way, also, but I haven't figured out a project to motivate me to learn it yet. The only one I didn't enjoy was C++, to be honest, and I don't think it remotely qualifies as worst language ever.
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