What was the first widely used programming language?
What was the first widely used programming language?
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Does Assembly count? From my understanding, it was the first many early computer manufacturers/universities, did when a new computer was developed, so they could reason about the instructions more easily on paper, before entering the code via punch cards.
Higher level than assembly
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