This dimension names the earlier language that a specific programming language was directly influenced by or replaced. Wikipedia notes that "modern languages often hide hardware details via abstraction in an effort to enable better software with less effort" than the languages that came before them. Browsing this way traces a language back to the predecessor it grew out of.
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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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