Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus E. Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist.

Works

Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the Lilith and Oberon operating systems, and for the Lola digital hardware design and simulation system. He received the ACM Turing Award for the development of these languages.

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Programming languages - Algol W - Pascal - Modula - Modula-2 - Oberon - Lilith - Oberon - Lola - ACM - Turing Award

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His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement is considered to be a classical text in software engineering.

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He wrote Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition and is still useful today. He retired in 1999.

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Recognition - 1999

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