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Niklaus Emil Wirth, the creator of Pascal, winner of a Turing award, and
fellow of the Computer History Museum, passed away on 1 January 2024 at the age
of 89.
Wirth was born on 15 February 1934, earning a Bachelor of Science in 1959, a
Master of Science in 1960, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in Computer
Science in 1963. From 1963 to 1967 he served as Assistant Professor at Stamford
University's Computer Science department, then Professor of Informatics at ETH
Zurich until his retirement in 1999. He took two one-year sabbaticals during
that time to work at Xerox PARC.
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)."
Via Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier.
RIP,
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