Pedantic point: Grace Hopper's work predated FORTRAN by several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC. FORTR

Pedantic point: Grace Hopper's work predated FORTRAN by several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC. FORTRAN is the first general purpose computer language still in use, but that's not the same thing as being the first.