What is the oldest oldest language in coding?

Question

Everything comes from somewhere.

Answer 1

Vacuum tubes!

The first computers -as in, the ones that were the size of a warehouse- used vacuum tubes to dictate a 1 or a 0. Fun fact, this is where the term "bugs" come from; moths would literally get trapped inside the tubes and cause issues.

Of course, there were techincally ancient "computing devices", and "programmable" things that were computers in concept, but really, not what you're talking about.

Before there were so many fancy and fun programming languages, they literally "coded" in 1s and 0s. If you're talking about actual languages, you could consider Ada to be among the pioneers of programming. Ada was really only ever used for military calculations, though!

Beyond that, mostly businesses had computers; not people at home. This is where you have languages such as Fortran and COBOL. Then, you could consider them multi-purpose, functioning languages.

By the way, great question.

Answer 2

Morse signs. Or punch cards.

Answer 3

i seriously thought it was B

Answer 4

Abacus

Answer 5

Lisp? Im not sure , to be honest

Answer 6

Earlier computing used different technologies, such as

- cogwheels (Difference engine)
- metal sheets (Zuse Z1)
- relais (Zuse Z3)
- vacuum tubes (ENIAC)

But the first real high-level programming language probably was Plankalkül, developed by Konrad Zuse.