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First generation programming languages are not languages as we think of them. Modern English-like languages are third generation languages and their invention is often credited to Grace Murray Hopper who designed COBOL.

First generation languages are called "Machine Language" and are defined by the designers of each CPU. They are much closer to electronic specifications than to they are to a language in any real sense. When people think of long series of ones and zeros flowing through the computer they are pretty close to first generation programming languages.

John von Neumann designed the first modern programmable computer (the EDVAC). It may be fair to credit Machine Language to him as well, but Konrad Zuse might be a contender for that designation as well.

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