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Plankalkul

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Plankalkul is a programming language designed by the German engineer Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945, widely regarded as the first high-level programming language designed for a computer, though it was never implemented during Zuse's own lifetime and remained largely unknown until the 1970s. Plankalkul included features such as assignment statements, subroutines, conditional statements, iteration, floating-point arithmetic, arrays, and nested data structures, remarkably advanced for its time.

Facts
First Released
1948 1
Concept was designed by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945 but was first published in 1948; the infobox date reflects first publication, not the design period
Paradigm
Procedural 1
Significance
Plankalkul was the first high-level programming language designed for a computer 1
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Invented

Konrad Zuse, Pioneers
Source Wikidata: Plankalkül
Sources
1. Plankalkul, Wikipedia
  • Infobox, First appeared
    1948; 78 years ago (1948), concept first published
  • Infobox, Paradigm
    Procedural
  • Lead section
    It was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer.
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Wikidata: Plankalkül
  • Wikidata Q34280, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
  • Invented: Konrad Zuse, Wikidata Q34280 P178 (developer) claim -> Q60093 (Konrad Zuse); computing atlas pioneer entity 276597, checked 2026-09-28
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