Plankalkul

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Plankalkul
       
           (Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have
          umlauts).  The first programming language, designed by {Konrad
          Zuse}, ca. 1945.  Zuse wrote "Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur"
          in 1944 which developed into Plankalkul.  Plankalkul included


          {arrays} and {records} and used a style of {assignment} in
          which the new value appears on the right.
       
          Zuse wrote Plankalkul for his {Z3} computer (finished before
          1945) and implemented it on there as well.  Much of his work
          may have been either lost or confiscated in the aftermath of
          World War II.
       
          {ESR Plankalkul
          (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/retro/plankalkuel/)}.
       
          ["The Plankalkul of Konrad Zuse", F.L. Bauer et al, CACM
          15(7):678-685, Jul 1972].
       
          (2002-05-28)