Ernst Herrera Legorreta is a Computer Scientist, Linguist, Biological Anthropologist.

He is the creator of the functional-multidimensional NGL programming language, the first general purpose programming language developed in Mexico.

In early 2004, Herrera provided the first hard evidence in 50 years that strongly supports the original ideas of the American linguists Benjamin Whorf and Morris Swadesh regarding Nahuatl's oligosynthetic character.