In 1970, Niklaus Wirth created the language known as Pascal, which is still used to make Skype desktop applications; in 1983, Bjarne Stroustrup created the object-oriented language C++, which today ...

Besides Niklaus Wirth, he also mentions Marvin Minsky, founder of the AI Lab at MIT, who, together with colleagues, coined the term “artificial intelligence” and described its key feature; and Alan ...

Delphi turns 30 – The dead live longer 30 years ago today, Borland released Turbo Pascal for Windows as Delphi. Many owners have changed since then, but an active community has remained.

After BASIC, in the early 1970s, Niklaus Wirth developed Pascal, another language meant to solely be a tool to teach students computer programming concepts. “This language was not really developed to ...

Abstract:With a goal of improving how computer science is taught, Niklaus Wirth created some of the field's most influential programming languages, including Pascal, Modula, and Oberon.