This dimension names the person or team credited with inventing a programming language. Wikipedia notes that a programming language is "an engineered language for expressing computer programs," engineering that is always the work of a named designer or team. Browsing this way collects every language credited to the same inventor.
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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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