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.
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First ReleasedConcept 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 SignificancePlankalkul was the first high-level programming language designed for a computer 1 Connections
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1. Plankalkul, Wikipedia
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1948; 78 years ago (1948), concept first published
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It was the first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer.
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Plankalkül (German pronunciation: [ˈplaːnkalkyːl]) is a programming language designed for engineering purposes by Konrad Zuse between 1942 and 1945.
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Z3 (computer), Z3, Z4 (computer), Z4, Plankalkül, Calculating Space (cf. digital physics), Montagestraße SRS 72, Helixturm
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