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Which programming language was released first

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Answer:

FORTRAN

Step-by-step explanation:

The first commercially available language was FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation); developed in 1956 (first manual appeared in 1956, but first developed in 1954) by a team led by John Backus at IBM.

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