Widely used is pretty vague.
So I'll say BASIC. It was the first language taught in my high school, which seems to imply "wide" use
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I'm completely biased because this is what I started on, but Texas Instruments calculators used BASIC for decades, long after it was no longer relevant anywhere else. For a product that ancient to use the language, it must have been popular.
Yup!
Back in the eighties, TI made a pocket computer with a qwerty keyboard and these weird shaped memory cartridges. BASIC was the default language for them, though you could get a cartridge that allowed Pascal instead.
I got one after I did a summer course at a local college between freshman and sophomore years. It was kinda useless for anything much because the screen was a single line lol. But I set up a little rng program on it for d&d where I could press a given key and it would roll preset dice combos. Expensive toy, basically (pun intended)
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FORTRAN?
Does Assembly count? From my understanding, it was the first many early computer manufacturers/universities, did when a new computer was developed, so they could reason about the instructions more easily on paper, before entering the code via punch cards.
Higher level than assembly
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And the answer is FORTRAN.
The question was a bit vague but fortran was the first commercially available language (being commercially released in 1957) and was extremely prevalent in the 1960s for science and engineering. COBOL was close but not as popular as FORTRAN (plus released later) and BASIC was mainly used in education settings with not getting more popularity until much later
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