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Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth passes away (ITWire)

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Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth passes away (ITWire)

[Posted January 4, 2024 by corbet]
ITWire covers the passing of Niklaus Wirth.
Wirth is well-remembered for his pioneering work in programming languages and algorithms. For these achievements, he received the ACM Turing Award in 1984, inducted as a Fellow of the ACM in 1994, and a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2004.

They include, among many, being chief designer for the programming languages Euler (1965), PL360 (1966), ALGOL W (1968), Pascal (1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2 (1991), and Oberon-07 (2007).

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Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth passes away (ITWire)

Posted Jan 4, 2024 16:40 UTC (Thu) by burki99 (subscriber, #17149) [Link]

For those reading German, https://ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstaltungen/eth-news/news... is worth a read.

Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth passes away (ITWire)

Posted Jan 4, 2024 17:09 UTC (Thu) by starblue (subscriber, #5842) [Link]

Here is a long interview about his life from two years ago (German with English subtitles):
Part 1 https://youtu.be/eAUS02ec3ow
Part 2 https://youtu.be/KQvmo89lPSE
Part 3 https://youtu.be/DWyrAv1QY7c

Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth passes away (ITWire)

Posted Jan 4, 2024 18:22 UTC (Thu) by dvejmz (subscriber, #129844) [Link]

Rest in piece, Herr Wirth.

Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth passes away (ITWire)

Posted Jan 4, 2024 22:54 UTC (Thu) by zaitseff (subscriber, #851) [Link]

Sad news indeed. My first experience of Pascal was, as a Year 10 high-school student in 1989, teaching other students during lunchtimes how to program in Apple II Pascal. I then moved to Turbo Pascal 3.01a under CP/M-80, on an 8-bit Z80-based Australian-designed MicroBee computer the same year. And then to Borland Pascal (up to version 7) on MS-DOS and early versions of Borland Delphi on Microsoft Windows -- before I completely switched to Linux and other languages. Thank you, Niklaus, for many pleasurable years!

By the way, The Register has also written this up in its inimitable way: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obit...

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