Abstract
Niklaus Wirth is one of the great pioneers of computer technology and winner of the ACM's A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science. He has made substancial contributions to the development of programming languages, compiler construction, programming methodology, and hardware design. While working at ETH Zürich, he developed the languages Pascal and Modula-2. He also designed an early high performance workstation, the Personal Computer Lilith, and most recently the language and operating system Oberon.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 260 |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2000 |
Fields of science
- 102 Computer Sciences