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When was the first programming language invented?

Don't say FORTRAN. Don't say COBOL. Go back further. Go back to the Altair 8800.

Back then, you didn't "write code." You flipped physical switches to enter binary machine language directly into memory. Programming was a ritual for priests in white lab coats. If you wanted to add 2 and 2, you consulted a manual, flipped eight switches, and prayed you didn't flip the wrong one.

Then came BASIC.