Pinpointing the "initial" programming language is hard as a consequence of different definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine is often credited, even though it wasn't executed on an actual device. The initial machine-executed languages emerged while in the 1940s, with Limited Code (1949) and Plankalkül (1943-1945) https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/