Niklaus Wirth, creator of the Pascal programming language, has died at the age of 89. The Swiss scientist also created the Modula-2 and Oberon languages. The programmer’s farewell ceremony will take place on January 11 in Zurich. This is stated in a statement by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
As indicated in the message, the scientist died on January 1 at his home, surrounded by family.
Niklaus Wirth has received the Turing Award, one of the most prestigious awards in computing. The scientist received the award in 1984 for the development of the innovative computer languages Euler, Algol-W, Modula and Pascal.
For two decades, from the early 1980s to the late 1990s, the scientist worked at the Swiss Higher Technical School. Wirth also collaborated with the universities of Stanford and Zurich.
The Swiss scientist is also known for creating the Ada embedded systems programming language specifically for the Pentagon.
Developed by Wirth, Pascal has been one of the most widespread and popular commercial programming languages for some time. On this basis, Object Pascal and Delphi were created.
In June 2007, Niklaus Wirth was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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