Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions puts ...
In the late 1970s, an ambitious new computer company called Apple started to brainstorm its next steps as the age of home computers suddenly seemed a reality. The company had already made a mark ...
Borland released Turbo Pascal for Windows as Delphi. Many owners have changed since then, but an active community has ...
His colleague at Xerox PARC: Niklaus Wirth, who was there on a sabbatical. “What was key about Wirth’s contribution was how he tried to simplify things, and how he tried to describe them ...
A giant of twentieth century software design, Niklaus Wirth died. As a small tribute, I decided to change the way I introduced this talk. Wirth is famous for one thing, but arguably, it wasn't the ...