Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Died when: 89 years 320 days (1078 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 15 February 1934) was a Swiss computer scientist.He has 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, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.
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