First programming language you made some money with?

ActionScript 2

C++

Pascal

I used to sell phishing VB programs. Not really proud about it...

Does XML count?!

Java (Android) and then node.js

ColdFusion.

@pixeltherapy no, it's a markup language.

My answer: C#

@Yeah69 I always wondered what the ML stood for, thanks!

Srsly, ColdFusion.

Objective-C

Java and J2EE

@pixeltherapy anything counts if you got paid for it! :)

@spl0 okay, then my body is the first thing I got paid for. 😂

RML, Mathematica and OpenModelica!

PHP and JavaScript

Does getting paid to teach said language counts? If so then Java

It's interesting that Pascal is the only lang of those mentioned here that even existed when I started.

Unfortunately, I had to start with BASIC because that's what was available on the Wang and Canon computers at my first job. Early 1980's Basic variants were thoroughly despicable languages and all variants were completely incompatible with each other.

C was my rehabilitation from Basic, and later C++ as soon as compilers started to become available.

@jens-peter Your name prompts the question - do you come from C++'s country of birth?

I learned a little ALGOL, because the school had an ALGOL compiler. We all wanted to learn Pascal then, but we didn't have access to any compiler.

I took one look at COBOL and found it a rather disgusting language. Ever since, I've only had negative feelings towards that language. ;-)

FORTRAN was common on minis (that's "mid size servers" for today's youth), but we were the micro computer generation and dismissed minis as "behemoths unable to do graphics".

A funny detail: any loop with more than about a thousand iterations was so slow in BASIC, that we often rewrote those snippets in Z80 assembly language.

When the IBM PC took over the market in the mid 80's, C rose to world domination in no time, only to be dethroned by C++ around '90. Today, I wouldn't call any language dominant in the way C and C++ once were.

@dfox me too.. high five.

C for me

PHP and JavaScript

Java

Java. I assisted lecturers during school in class.

VB (asp classic). Thank god that's in the past!

Python 😁

VB and mumps. *shudder*

Perl 🐪

ActionScript 3.0

Vanilla PHP. Real earnings started with Laravel PHP.

HTML and CSS

COBOL

Does batch scripting count?

If not, Structured Text. It's a plc-programming language based on Pascal.

JavaScript

I know its not a real general purpose language, but first got paid to write in R

Wordpress !!

@jtdv that's uncommon. Care to share what project did you do?

@Letmecode Are you sure?

@hayz More of a data analyst role so a lot of data wrangling, visualisation and modelling. A web dashboard built in R also deals with some reactive JS concepts.

@jtdv so you've started your career as data analyst? Nice!

Thanks @hayz! But still developer at heart haha

C/C++ (embedded systems) moved quickly onto c#. Now JS for most things.

Cpp

HTML + C$$

PHP, work now moving to JS, but have used others for personal and uni projects.

Well mine was Sinclair basic (anyone remember zx spectrum?) but I got that money from my parents so I don't think that counts...
Many, many years later I started making money with php and js

I'm not sure if it's considered programming, but I used to make mini flash games(with AS2) as a kid and sell them to my classmates.

VB 🙁 It was vb.net though, I swear...! I did Flash / AS3 at that same job soon thereafter.

VB 6 😕

@slinavipuz /lib/cpp ?

@mclovinit FORTRAN is used on the Voyager probes. NASA were hiring a FORTRAN dev in 2014 as the original guy on the program was retiring. They ended up hiring internally.

Sounds like an awesome job!

@mclovinit here's an article on it, got the year wrong, was 2015:
http://popularmechanics.com/space/...

C#, wrote a Windows mobile app for the medical sector.