Konrad Zuse developed the first real programming language, Plankalkül (“Plan Calculus”), in 1944–45. Zuse’s language allowed for the creation of procedures (also called routines or subroutines; stored chunks of code that could be invoked repeatedly to perform routine operations such as taking a square…

What was the simplest data type in Plankalkül?

The simplest data type in Plankalkul was the single bit.

What was the first high-level programming language?

As the first widely accepted, high-level computer programming language, Fortran has either directly or indirectly influenced some of the most commonly used computer languages of today.