Niklaus Wirth

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I am deeply saddened to share the news of Professor Niklaus Wirth, a computer science pioneer passing away on January 1st at 89.

We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and genius.

Niklaus Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler (1965), PL360 (1966), ALGOL W (1966), Pascal (1970),Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2 (1991), and Oberon-07 (2007).

He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the operating systems Medos-2 (1983, for the Lilith workstation), and Oberon (1987, for the Ceres workstation), and for the Lola (1995) digital hardware design and simulation system. In 1984, he received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award for the development of these languages. In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM.

RIP Niklaus Wirth (1934 - 2024)