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Niklaus Wirth
KindPerson
Born1934
Died2024
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcepeople.inf.ethz.ch ↗

Designed Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon — a one-man argument that languages should be small enough to teach.

Created ALGOL W Pascal Modula Modula-2 Oberon

Designed Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon — a career of making languages smaller and more rigorous — and wrote 'Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs' (1975), the field's best title.\n\nTuring Award 1984. His joke: he got credit for creating languages but blamed for making them too small to use.

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  1. people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth