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Michael (A.) Jackson is the inventor of representing programs in this diagram format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_structured_programming


There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_(writer) , who was one of the most famous experts on beer and whisky.


I seem to recall when he was on TV he leaned into the joke ("not that Michael Jackson"). Of course that was long before the days random people could send abuse on Twitter.


It used to be that whenever I told people about his work, they'd ask if that was the beer guy.




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