Niklaus Emil Wirth

By admin , 21 December 2015
Niklaus
Emil
Wirth
Male
Description

Designer of programming languages including Pascal, EULER, ALGOL-W, and Modula, Wirth won the Turing Award in 1984 for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. He was a Swiss computer scientist who pioneered several classic topics in software engineering.

Designer of early programming languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL
Date of Birth
1934-02-15
Date of Death
2024-01-01
Niklaus Emil Wirth

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