Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth has died

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Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth died on 1 January 2024, just weeks before his 90th birthday. The long-​serving ETH Professor of Computer Science achieved world fame by developing the Pascal programming language in the 1970s. In 1984, he became the only German-​speaking computer scientist yet to have received the Turing Award, which is regarded as the Nobel Prize for computer science.

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Those of us who are rather older will have been influenced one way or the other by Wirth's work. Algol W was one of my first programming languages.

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