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Without starting a flame war or bashing session...
What is the first language you learned: verbal and coding
Do you still use either on a regular basis?
Why or why not?
Canadian English and Commodore BASIC
Living in the Southern U.S., I still speak English, but, admittedly, it has been... adjusted to use local terms (Y'all, All y'all, you'n's).
I still use BASIC variants (VBA mostly in Excel or third party applications), but haven't used any Commodore products since about the late '90s.
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English and COBOL.
Yes. And No Way José.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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OriginalGriff wrote: English
Not Welsh? You traitor! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Nobody speaks Welsh, it's all made up to annoy the English
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Google yn siarad Cymraeg, mae'n debyg.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Are you Borg?
Software Zen: delete this;
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No, I've never played tennis[^] in my life!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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My pardons and apologies for my American bias, ignorance of most things UK, and the lack of political correctness, but this has always been one of my favorite jokes, and this seems the place to drop it:
Quoting from St. Genesius of Rome, patron saint of comedy:
"And then the Lord made the Scottish, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them kilts so that no-one would take them seriously.
And then the Lord made the Irish, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them alcohol, so that their brains would be ever-addled.
And then the Lord made the Welsh, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them the Welsh language, so that no-one would understand them.
And then the Lord made the English, but since He did not want them to take over the world, He gave them the Scottish, the Irish and the Welsh."
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Just remember,
If you speak three languages, you're trilingual,
if you speak two languages, you're bilingual,
and if you speak only one language, you're American.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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BrainiacV wrote: and if you speak only one language, you're American.
It's sad how true that is, and even more sad how proud most Americans are of the fact that they only speak one language.
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What you said!  OriginalGriff wrote: Yes. And No Way José.
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Dutch (my native language) and C++ JavaScript, and later I learnt C++ (but later I switched to C#).
I learnt HTML before I learnt JavaScript, however HTML isn't a programming language, but a markup language.
modified 9-Jul-13 12:11pm.
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Is there any point to this question? (given 90% responding with English and BASIC)
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I am part of the other 10%.
Spanish and Assembler 
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English and C++
English, of course. Rarely C++. I started dabbling in C# about eight years ago and I've loved it ever since. And now I write in-house software for my employer (warehouse environment) so the rapid development and ease of creating data-driven applications is great. I still use C++ when I want to toy around with game development though.
djj55: Nice but may have a permission problem
Pete O'Hanlon: He has my permission to run it.
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Just to prove Eric right.
English and Sinclair BASIC.
I've used at least 9 different variants of BASIC over the years but I haven't touched it for a few now. I made the switch to Borland Turbo C++ 0.99 ( The almost perfect version  ) in 95 and never looked back.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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What an odd path, I had the same sort of decision around 95 as well, ended up with VB after spending 6 months building an app in turbo pascal that had so many memory leaks it blew a brand new 386 away. Just showed my lack of training I guess. Now it is c# and I really don't want to have to change again!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It seems odd from the outside but it didn't to me at the time. Not only was the DOS based IDE for Turbo C++ really very similar to the DOS based IDE for QBasic which I'd graduated to but C++ gave me many of the things I was looking for in BASIC and not finding. The ability to write larger programs, dynamic memory allocation, serializing, objects with constructors and private functions, loadable modules. I was already trying to do these things either by simulation or convention so C++ made my life easier rather than harder. Reuse by inheritance was the clincher, not having to create another UDT with all the same stuff as the last one 
I guess if I'd had access to VB at that point that's the way I would have gone as it did eventually provide many of those things. I did pick up VB5 and 6 later on and even ported some of my QBasic code but I found it curiously unsatisfying and then again VB6 for a bit of commercial work when it was the only practical way to use DCOM but I handed that project off pretty quickly and the next guy pretty much rewrote it. I guess once you've moved on there's no going back and that's probably a good thing. Having said that I did 3 months of C# last year and am quite happy going back to C++, the C# was fun but it reminded me of the plasticy feel of VB somehow.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Canadian/Québecois French and Apple II logo (and maybe some sort of basic on a Sinclair computer)
Nihil obstat
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English and VB6.
I never learned another spoken language completely, so I'm still using English. I haven't touched VB6 since I learned C++ (and actually learned to program, rather than copying code I didn't understand from a book).
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Tim Carmichael wrote: verbal and coding
English and Apple Basic
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Red Neck English and Assembler
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Urdu (My native language) and GW BASIC
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