Pinpointing the "1st" programming language is hard due to various definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Motor is commonly credited, while it was not executed on an actual machine. The 1st machine-executed languages emerged inside the 1940s, with Short Code (1949) and Plankalkül (1943-1945) being notable early https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/