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    Niklaus Emil Wirth (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and...
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    is a general-purpose programming language first published in 1987 by Niklaus Wirth and the latest member of the Wirthian family of ALGOL-like languages...
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  • Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming...
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  • Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs is a 1976 book written by Niklaus Wirth covering some of the fundamental topics of system engineering, computer...
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  • adage is named after Niklaus Wirth, a computer scientist who discussed it in his 1995 article "A Plea for Lean Software". Wirth attributed the saying...
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  • procedural programming language developed between 1977 and 1985/8 by Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich. It was created as the language for the operating system...
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  • Wirth syntax notation (WSN) is a metasyntax, that is, a formal way to describe formal languages. Originally proposed by Niklaus Wirth in 1977 as an alternative...
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  • introduced in the book, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, by Niklaus Wirth in 1976. It features quite limited language constructs: there are no...
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    Oberon, 2013 Edition". Retrieved 13 February 2021. Wirth, Niklaus (20 February 2014). Niklaus Wirth Birthday Symposium. ETH Zurich. Retrieved 13 February...
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  • is a programming language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60. ALGOL W is a relatively simple...
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    School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1558607231. ISBN 1-55860-723-4 & dpunkt, ISBN 3-932588-85-1. Wirth, Niklaus (January...
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  • It was developed in Switzerland, at ETH Zurich, in the mid-1970s by Niklaus Wirth, the same person who designed Pascal. The main innovation of Modula...
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  • Niklaus is a masculine Slavic given name and surname. Niklaus comes from the Greek word nikolaos (νικόλαος), meaning victory of the people. It’s a variant...
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  • Nägeli, and Christian Jacobi, and the Pascal-S compiler in 1975, by Niklaus Wirth. Programs that have been translated to P-code can either be interpreted...
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  • Euler is a programming language created by Niklaus Wirth and Helmut Weber, conceived as an extension and generalization of ALGOL 60. The designers' goals...
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  • development system. As Lisa gave way to Macintosh, Apple collaborated with Niklaus Wirth, the author of Pascal, to develop an officially standardized version...
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  • immunologist Wilhelm Wirth (1876–1952), German psychologist Willis Wagner Wirth (1916–1994), American entomologist Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024), Swiss computer...
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    the FOR loop from Modula-2. It was developed in 1991 at ETH Zurich by Niklaus Wirth and Hanspeter Mössenböck, who is now at Institut für Systemsoftware...
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  • books using syntax diagrams include the "Pascal User Manual" written by Niklaus Wirth (diagrams start at page 47) and the Burroughs CANDE Manual. In the compilation...
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  • Implementation". ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 6 (9): 1–19. doi:10.1145/942596.807055. Wirth, Niklaus (1968). "PL360, A Programming Language for the 360 Computers". Journal...
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  • A2 is the next generation of Native Oberon, the x86 PC version of Niklaus Wirth's operating system Oberon. It is small, fast, supports multiprocessing...
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    did his doctorate under the supervision of Hanspeter Mössenböck and Niklaus Wirth on the subject of a programming language for vector computers. He works...
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  • Component Pascal is a programming language in the tradition of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon and Oberon-2. It bears the name of the language...
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  • Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Niklaus Wirth, 1975, ISBN 0-13-022418-9 Compiler Construction, Niklaus Wirth, 1996, ISBN 0-201-40353-6 Sebesta, R...
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  • December – Saint Stephen's Day 31 December – Restoration Day 1 January – Niklaus Wirth, 89, computer scientist (Pascal). 6 January – Kurt W. Forster, 88, architecture...
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  • (or PL/360) is a system programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth and written by Wirth, Joseph W. Wells Jr., and Edwin Satterthwaite Jr. for the...
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    unpopular with implementers and gained it a reputation of being difficult. Niklaus Wirth actually walked out of the design committee to create the simpler Pascal...
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  • Archived from the original on January 5, 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2010. Niklaus Wirth stated on a number of public occasions, e.g. in a lecture at the Polytechnic...
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    Kathleen Jensen, Niklaus Wirth (1985). Pascal User Manual and Report. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-96048-1. Niklaus Wirth (1983). Programming in...
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    programming (although this concept is not limited to OOP). At ETH Zürich, Niklaus Wirth and his colleagues investigated the concept of type checking across...
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