Is Atheorium the First Programmable Block Chain?

Atheorium was the first programmable block chain, or is it just the most well known? And is programmble block chain for implementing just smart contracts, or are there other benefits to programm ability? Ye. I think te know, i sha, bitcoin was probably the first programable chain, but the programm ability there was pretty limited. Writes closely like a tor in complete language, where you can write any programme and execute any function. So indeed, ser etheoriem was the first instantiation of that vision.