Pinpointing the "to start with" programming language is tricky because of different definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine is frequently credited, while it was not executed on a true device. The initial machine-executed languages emerged while in the forties, with Small Code (1949) and Plankalkül (1943-1945) https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/