The first commercially available language was FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), developed in 1956 (first manual appeared in 1956, but first developed in 1954) by a team led by John Backus at IBM.

Sep 7, 2025 · Short Code, proposed by John Mauchly in 1949, is considered the first high-level programming language. It was designed to represent mathematical expressions in a format readable …

Jul 11, 2022 · First time in history that the capability of computer devices was judged. 1949: Assembly Language. It is a type of low-level language. It mainly consists of instructions (kind of symbols) that …

Jun 10, 2022 · Konrad Zuse created what is considered the first programming language for computers in the early 1940s. It was called Plankalkul, and it could store codes, enabling engineers to carry out …

Oct 6, 2025 · The first programming language designed for high-level scientific computing was Fortran (Formula Translation). Developed by John Backus and his team at IBM in 1957, it made computer …

One of the first programming languages ever created, FORTRAN, was developed in 1957 and is still used today. Developed to solve scientific and mathematical problems, the FORTRAN programming …

Oct 15, 2018 · 1883: The first programming language was developed in 1883 when Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage worked together on the Analytical Engine, which was a primitive mechanical …

Konrad Zuse begins work on Plankalkül (Plan Calculus), the first algorithmic programming language, with the goal of creating the theoretical preconditions for the solution of general problems.

Sep 30, 2024 · This was the era when high-level programming languages emerged, allowing programmers to write code that was easier to understand and closer to human language. One of the …

Visual Basic is often taught as a first programming language today as it is based on the BASIC language developed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. BASIC is a very limited language and was …