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The Important Names In Computing History We Never Heard -18

August 12, 2011 No Comments

Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth

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Wirth designed several programming languages, but is best known for creating Pascal.

He won a Turing Award in 1984 for “developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.”

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