The Address programming language (Russian: Адресный язык программирования) was one of the world's first high-level programming languages. It was created in 1955 by Ekaterina Yushchenko. In particular, the Address programming language made possible indirect addressing and addresses of the highest rank - analogous to pointers.Unlike Fortran and ALGOL 60, APL (Address programming language) supported indirect addressing and addressing of higher ranks.