Pinpointing the "to start with" programming language is hard due to varying definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Motor is commonly credited, even though it was not executed on a real device. The primary equipment-executed languages emerged inside the forties, with Short Code (1949) and Plankalkül (1943-1945) https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/