Swiss scientist Niklaus Wirth, the creator and chief designer of the Pascal and Modula-2 programming languages, died at the age of 89. This has been reported Web site Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The scientist passed away on January 1.
“Wirth developed a number of innovative computer languages, including EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA, and PASCAL, that laid the foundation for future research in computer languages, systems, and architecture,” ACM said.
In 1984, Wirth was awarded the Turing Award for the creation of programming languages. The Pascal programming language became Wirth’s most famous development.
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