Noam Chomsky is credited for creating a program.
In linguistics , the minimalist program ( MP ) is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s , starting with a 1993 paper by Noam Chomsky . Noam Chomsky . He is credited as the creator or co-creator of the universal grammar theory , the generative grammar theory , the Chomsky hierarchy , and the minimalist program .