The Early Development of Programming Languages by Donald E. Knuth and Luis Trabb Pardo.
A survey of the first ten (10) years of “high level” computer languages. Ends in 1947 and was written based on largely unpublished materials.
If you want to find a “new” idea, there are few better places to start than with this paper.
Enjoy!
I first saw this in a tweet by JD Maturen.