Pinpointing the "to start with" programming language is tricky due to various definitions. Ada Lovelace's 1843 algorithm for Charles Babbage's Analytical Motor is often credited, while it was not executed on an actual device. The very first machine-executed languages emerged inside the 1940s, with Quick Code (1949) and Plankalkül (1943-1945) https://blog.hellomybd.com/the-first-programming-language/