Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirthis a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 February 1934
CountrySwitzerland
activity certain creative examples exhibit serving taught
The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques.
programming faster software
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.