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Niklaus Wirth

Laureate 1989: Niklaus Wirth

“[…] for developing a sequence of programming languages, which enabled innovative concepts in structured programming and which had a lasting impact on the use of computers in various fields across the world and in all domains.”

Wirth konzipierte und entwickelte die Programmiersprachen PASCAL, MODULA-2 und OBERON. Alle drei seien herausragend bezüglich ihrer logischen Konsequenz, so die Gutachter, und deshalb richtungsweisend für die gesamte Computersprachen-Entwicklung. Eine besonders weite internationale Verbreitung habe PASCAL gefunden. W. habe damit eine konsistente ‘Schulsprache’ geschaffen, die mit ihren Strukturierungsschemen Array, Record, Set und File zu einer strukturierten Programmierung hinführe.

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Research and Innovation SERI
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