The language of programmingI remember learning my first programming language. As a part of the required informatics class in the second grade, we had to study some dialect of BASIC. Slouched at our desks under dim fluorescent lights, we were throwing impatient glances at whirring IBM PCs placed along the walls of a stuffy classroom. The year was 1997, Russia. None of us had a computer at home. On a chalk-smeared blackboard,
