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A Short Biography of Niklaus Wirth

Author Name:

Niklaus Wirth

Born As:

Niklaus Emil Wirth

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15 Feb 1934

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Computer scientist                          
Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler, 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 and in 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM.
His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, about the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering. In 1975 he wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition and is still useful today.
He designed the simple programming language PL/0 to illustrate compiler design. It has formed the basis for many university compiler design classes.                          
                          
Known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal.
1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.
His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement, about the teaching of programming, is considered to be a classic text in software engineering. In 1975 he wrote the book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition and is still useful today.