A language whose defining historical significance is introducing or standardizing structured programming constructs, such as blocks and structured control flow, as a deliberate design goal, rather than simply being procedural in the ordinary sense. Belongs here: Ada, which the founding wave recorded under Structured Language specifically, kept as its SubLabel here since a member entity carries one SubLabel, not two, even though Ada is also, in the broader sense, a procedural language. Does not belong here: an ordinary procedural language without a specific structured-programming design emphasis, filed under Procedural Language.
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Contributing factors to its popularity and widespread acceptance, at first in academia and later among practitioners, include the publication of what is now known as the structured program theorem in 1966, and the publication of the influential "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" open letter in 1968 by Dutch computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra, who coined the term structured programming.
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