Difference between revisions of "RIP Niklaus Wirth"
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| − | I don't think there's a person who created more programming languages that I used than Wirth: Pascal, Modula, and Oberon; | + | I don't think there's a person who created more programming languages that I used than Wirth: Pascal, Modula, and Oberon; maybe Guy Steele, depending on what you count; |
Wirth is also famous for Wirth's law: software becomes slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster; | Wirth is also famous for Wirth's law: software becomes slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster; | ||
Latest revision as of 20:36, 3 January 2024
RIP Niklaus Wirth;
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I don't think there's a person who created more programming languages that I used than Wirth: Pascal, Modula, and Oberon; maybe Guy Steele, depending on what you count;
Wirth is also famous for Wirth's law: software becomes slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster;
He received the 1984 Turing Award, and had an asteroid named after him in 1999; Wirth died at the age of 89;
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