What was the first programming language written for computers?

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Looking at so many programming languages we have today, each one being unique in it's own way, I've tried to figure out what the first programming language written for computers is.

Looking at the release date for the popular ones I got somewhat close but I didn't look at less obvious ones, programming languages which are either dead or very little use nowadays. Fortran is the closest thing I got but I don't know if it's real.

In a nutshell: What was the first programming language written for computers? Are there any languages that derived from that language?

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