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Niklaus Wirth, a potent force in the development of programming languages since the 1960s, passed away on January 1. The programming languages that Wirth either developed or influenced include Euler (the language he developed for his PhD thesis), Algol, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon. He became a professor, helped to develop and then headed the computer… ....

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