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by ThrowawayR2 160 days ago
Except punch cards are a data storage format, not a language. Some of the the earliest computers were programmed by plugboard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugboard#Early_computers ) so that might be thought of as a precursor to machine language / assembly language.

And compiled and interpreted languages evolved alongside each other in the 1950s-1970s.