Re:100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse: creator of the first pr...
by ErrantX on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @10:04AM
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Wikipedia has more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
It terms it the first high level non-von Neumann programming language.
Zuse's language was never implemented in his lifetime. You could argue the same about Lovelace's algorithm, but not about Turing machines.
Zuse certainly developed the first programmable computer (albeit an electromechanical one, the first digital one was the UK Colossus a year later) and it's certainly an amazing achievement, but not the first programming languages.