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Legal name: Wirth, Niklaus Emil
Birthdate: 1934-02-15
Date of death: 2024-01-01
Gender: male
Education: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Université Laval
University of California, Berkeley
Occupations: computer scientist
Organizations: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
The Computer History Museum (Fellow)
ACM (Fellow)
National Academy of Engineering (Foreign Associate)
Swiss Academy of Engineering
Stanford University (show all 7)
University of Zurich
Awards and honors: Turing Award (1984)
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1983)
Pour le Merite (1996)
Leonardo da Vinci Medal (1999)
IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (1987)
Nationality: Switzerland
Birthplace: Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
Associated Place (for map): Winterthur, Switzerland

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mykl-s 1,467 reviews

Algorithms plus Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth

-dated now, but the programming world dearly needs a Wirth for the 21st century
-Wirth cuts thru the extraneous, to the heart of making elegant software

Dec 15, 20121 other review

Lyndatrue 452 reviews

Programming in Modula-2 by Niklaus Wirth

Dear Niklaus Wirth; this book made me want to stab my eyes, repeatedly. Thank goodness I never had to write this abominable language. I actually destroyed my PASCAL book by Wirth, rather than permit it to be inflicted on another. I suppose he's an acquired taste. I suppose Modula-2 was also.

I really liked PASCAL, and ALGOL was a decent language also. I appreciate the contributions he's made. Just not his writing style.

Jan 19, 2014 (Edited)

jamessavik 24 reviews

Systematic programming: An introduction (Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation) by Niklaus Wirth

This book is a classic of computer science. Wirth introduced the paradigm of structured programming which dominated programming practices and the design of programming languages in the 70s and 80s.

Aug 2, 2006

jamessavik 24 reviews

Algorithms and Data Structures by Niklaus Wirth