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Niklaus Wirth, computer scientist and creator of the Pascal language

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts

Many of you may not know who he was, but Niklaus Wirth's development of the Pascal language and other platforms had a huge influence on computer science and personal computing. If you went through a computer science program in the 1980s, you learned Pascal. As with many of the foundational technologies of what we use today, Pascal (and Wirth's other projects) were distributed for free. He viewed it as a common good.

He also wanted to avoid complexity in systems and programs.

Dr. Wirth evangelized for simplicity in a seminal essay for Computer magazine in 1995. “Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication,” he wrote, “which is baffling — the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.”
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Gift link: Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89
 
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