What was your first programming language?

Shamelessly copied from here [ntecs.de]

Assembly (6502/Apple):

; Uses S-C Assembler variant.
; .or is origin
; .as is ASCII String
; .hs is Hex String
.or $300
main ldy #$00
.1 lda str,y
beq .2
jsr $fded ; ROM routine, COUT, y is preserved
iny
bne .1
.2 rts
str .as "HELLO WORLD"
.hs 0D00

Assembly (8086/DOS):

.MODEL tiny
.CODE
ORG 100h
HELLO PROC
MOV AH,09h
LEA DX,msg
INT 21h ;Display Hello World

MOV AX,4C00h ;Exit to DOS
INT 21h
HELLO ENDP
msg DB 'Hello World$'
END HELLO

Fortran:

PROGRAM HELLOW
WRITE(UNIT=*, FMT=*) 'Hello World'
END

Pascal:

PROGRAM HelloWorld;

BEGIN
WRITELN('Hello World');
END.

BASIC:

PRINT "Hello World"

C:

#include <stdio.h>

main() {
printf("Hello World\n");
}

Java:

public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
}

Perl:

print "Hello World\n";

The lameness filter is truely lame. And why doesn't Slashdot (of all places!) allow some sort of HTML/CSS that preserves code indentation (<tt> should work, but doesn't.)

I also wanted to paste some COBOL code for "Other" but that wouldn't let me get past the lameless filter. Maybe it's not completely lame after all :-)

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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/ EWD04xx/EWD498.html [utexas.edu]

10 PRINT "HELLO"

mov ax, 5