What was the first "hobby" programming language?

Question

What was the first programming language that was available to the user? For example, a programming language offered to the public for experimentation, personal use, hobbies, etc .; something that was not just “behind the scenes” and for use by large companies to create professional products and services.

Answer 1

BASIC (1964) was at least the first popular hobby language.

Answer 2

, , Integer BASIC, Apple BASIC. Apple II.

Commodore BASIC Commodore 64 ( Microsoft 6502 BASIC Apple BASIC) Apple, . , , , , , , Joust.

Answer 3

Micral . , 8008. ( ), , . SCELBI Mark-8 ; , PDP-8 ^[2]. BASIC, Altair ^[3].

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• The Micral, Armand Van Dormael
• The early days of personal computers , Stephen B. Gray
• A brief history of the microcomputer
• Wikipedia: Micral
• Wikipedia: SCELBI

Answer 4

If you count the original concept and prototyping, I would vote [Forth] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language) .