VAX BASIC

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1976)

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vangale

brucehoult

boutell

jancona

shawnr

vangale - 4 years

brucehoult - 4 years

boutell - 4 years

jancona - 3 years

shawnr - 3 years

vangale

1976–1979

Also PDP-11 BASIC (RSTS-E not VMS). My first language. Tried to program a role playing game but quickly hit the limits of 32k RAM and hated waiting 15 minutes for the paper tape to read.

brucehoult

1981–1984

Used this for quick&dirty things on he VAXen at University. Years include BASIC PLUS on the PDP-11, which isn't an option.

boutell

1985–1988

There is no security restriction that can not be creatively bypassed to create a group chat program.

jancona

1988–1990

BASIC was one of the most popular languages on VAX/VMS systems in the 80s. I didn't much care for it and was glad to leave it behind.

shawnr

1991–1993

All of my high school programming courses (both of them) were taught in VAX Basic. What fun that was...