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Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024)

Author of Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

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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.
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Lyndatrue | Jan 19, 2014 |
-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
 
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mykl-s | 1 other review | Dec 15, 2012 |
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.
 
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jamessavik | Aug 2, 2006 |
A classic text in Computer Science by a pioneer in the field.
 
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