This dimension groups programming languages by the ACM subject area they fall under. Wikipedia notes the ACM Computing Classification System "is a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery," and programming language theory is one of its recognized areas. Browsing this way collects every language classified under the same ACM area.
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1. Wikipedia: Structured programming
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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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