I programmed in Forth. In fact, as a teen, I bought a Forth environment for $150 with money from walking beans.
I never met anyone who’d coded in APL, but I read several articles in Byte Magazine around it and was very intrigued.
I never met anyone who’d coded in APL, but I read several articles in Byte Magazine around it and was very intrigued.
APL was the first language I learned to program in at a level greater than very simple loops like generating the Fibonacci series, etc. I used it a lot when I was in high school because I had access to computer time on a university-owned IBM 370 via an APL workspace. I soon lost interest in it though as more structured languages began to take over, and as BASIC began to be used to program laboratory computers for data collection, analysis, etc. This was in the early- to mid=70s time frame, around 50 years ago.
During the '80s I switched to assembler programming as I learned to use microprocessors and worked on a few microprocessor projects. I did a fairly involved one using the RCA 1802, and magnetic bubble memory.
I learned to program in Pascal for a job I had in the late '70s; was exposed to LISP in graduate school. I found LISP intriguing but very difficult to maintain. I used Forth once for an engineering (hardware) project, and I hated it. Awful.
Forth was one of the first languages I learned as a young teen. I used APL for a bit in college - it was amazingly compact and powerful for math oriented tasks.