Niklaus Wirth

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Niklaus Emil Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming language, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934. In 1959 he earned a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH). In 1960 he earned an M.Sc... full article at wikipedia

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