I started programming in AppleSoft BASIC in 1986. But quickly became fascinated with 65C02 assembly. By the time I got to college and started taking different programming language classes, I quickly fell in love C. My knowing assembly helped me understand C and even though I haven’t learned any other assembly language since then, when I read articles about low level architecture of processors, I can follow along.

Let me take that back, I did learn 16 bit x86 assembly and the int21 DOS commands in college.