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Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist, created the Pascal programming language (d. 2024)

Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, "for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages".

15 February 1934

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