Evolution of Computer Languages (infographic), The

Programming languages, believe it or not, have existed for over 200 years, since the invention of the punch-card-programmable Jacquard loom. It wasn't a programming language in the modern sense — there was no computation and no logic — but it started a cascade that would eventually lead to Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace's 1842 deconstruction of his work which led to the first computer program.