Pinpointing the "very first" programming language is hard because of varying definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Motor is usually credited, even though it was not executed on a true machine. The main equipment-executed languages emerged while in the forties, with Short Code (1949) and Plankalkül (1943-1945) https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/