Pinpointing the "to start with" programming language is tricky resulting from different definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Motor is often credited, even though it was not executed on a true machine. The very first equipment-executed languages emerged from the 1940s, with Shorter Code (1949) and Plankalkül https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/