Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89
His elegantly simple coding language, Pascal, helped power the personal-computer revolution at Apple in the 1980s.
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His elegantly simple coding language, Pascal, helped power the personal-computer revolution at Apple in the 1980s.
Dr. Wirth's coding language, Pascal, helped power the personal-computer revolution at Apple in the 1980s and elsewhere and profoundly streamlined how programmers built their instructions.
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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