OK... On the off chance that this is a real question, the answer is: The first program was written in hardware (Gears and Pulleys, in fact). You might take a look at http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/adw/programming_languages.shtml or just google for 'History of Computer Programming'. Chris Midkiff > -----Original Message----- > From: dlegion [mailto:dlegion@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:03 PM > To: kclug@kclug.org > Subject: Qbasic ? > > > I'm taking a home course on QBASIC, and as I was reading along I > suddenly was > dumb struck. When the first program to ever be writen was > writen, How did > they check it or code it to make sure it would work and since it > would have > been the first program EVER! how did they wirte it? > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > >