Pinpointing the "to start with" programming language is hard on account of different definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Motor is frequently credited, though it was not executed on a real device. The 1st machine-executed languages emerged in the 1940s, with Short Code (1949) and Plankalkül (1943-1945) https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/