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Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist, created the Pascal programming language (died 2024)
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Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Pascal (programming language)
Programming language
Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named after French mathematician, philosopher and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)