Source for above three paragraphs: The First Successful High Level Programming Language by Mary Bellis http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm The first computer language that was actually used on an electric computing device actually appeared in 1949: http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm In your question, the implication is that there was a specific language created in 1952 that was called assembly.