Plankalk�l

(Or "Plankalkuel" if you don't have umlauts). The first

programming language, by {Konrad Zuse}, ca. 1945. Zuse wrote

"Rechenplan allgemeiner Struktur" in 1944 which developed into

Plankalk�l. Plankalk�l included {array}s and {record}s and

used a style of {assignment} in which the new value appears on

the right.

Zuse wrote Plankalk�l 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.

["The Plankalk�l of Konrad Zuse", F.L. Bauer et al, CACM

15(7):678-685 (Jul 1972)].