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Ask HN: Is Fortran the first high-level language?
I've been wondering if it's always so clear what and when came first, I think not. I think that before there were definitely some programming languages that were higher level than Fortran, it's just that Fortran gained a lot of popularity. If you know, please share those high-level programming languages that existed before Fortran, but almost no one knows about them.
- mikequinlan 1y agoPlankalkül - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl was designed but as far as I know never implemented (until 2000). ENIAC Short Code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Code_(computer_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Code_(computer_language) was implemented but very little used.