Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award

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Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award is a prestigious software development honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the practice and advancement of programming.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf professional honor
programming award
software development award
associatedWith Dr. Dobb's Journal
surface form: Dr. Dobb’s Journal Excellence in Programming series

Dr. Dobb's Journal
surface form: Dr. Dobb’s Journal magazine
awardFor contributions to software development practice
contributions to software engineering
excellence in programming
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
domain computer science
information technology
field computer programming
software development
hasCategory computer science awards
software engineering awards
technology awards
industry software industry
language English
namedAfter Dr. Dobb's Journal
surface form: Dr. Dobb’s Journal
notableRecipient Anders Hejlsberg
Bjarne Stroustrup
Donald E. Knuth
surface form: Donald Knuth

Guido van Rossum
James Gosling
Linus Torvalds
organizer Dr. Dobb’s Journal editorial staff
publisher Dr. Dobb's Journal
surface form: Dr. Dobb’s Journal
purpose to honor excellence in software development
to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement of programming
to recognize outstanding contributions to the practice of programming
recognitionType professional recognition
selectionCriteria influence on programming practice
innovation in software development
technical impact of work
status prestigious
targetAudience computer programmers
software developers
software engineers

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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
Description of subject: Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award is a prestigious software development honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the practice and advancement of programming.

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Guido van Rossum awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
Anders Hejlsberg awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
Bjarne Stroustrup awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
this entity surface form: Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award
Chris Lattner awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
Andy Hertzfeld awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
Guy L. Steele Jr. awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
Erich Gamma awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award
Dan Ingalls awardReceived Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award