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Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler, Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, Oberon-2, and Oberon-07.
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In 1980 Susan Wirth, a 35 year old teacher living in San Francisco, was abducted by her parents to be deprogramed from her leftist political views and activities.
This article was retitled by editor Niklaus Wirth to " Go To Statement Considered Harmful ", which introduced the phrase " considered harmful " in computing.
In 1921-22 and throughout 1923, he was minister of justice in the cabinets of Joseph Wirth and Gustav Stresemann.
It was developed in Switzerland in the late 1970s by Niklaus Wirth, the same person who designed Pascal.
Modula was never released, and its development was discontinued after its publication ; Wirth then concentrated his efforts on Modula's successors: Modula-2, Oberon, Modula-2 + and Modula-3.
Although Wirth never released Modula, a compiler from the University of York, UK, was released.
Wirth was born in Winterthur, Switzerland, in 1934.
Pascal, named in honor of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, was developed by Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth reports that a first attempt to implement it in Fortran in 1969 was unsuccessful due to Fortran's inadequacy to express complex data structures.
Although the concept was first implemented circa 1966 ( as O-code for BCPL and P-a code for the Euler Language, Wirth & Weber, CACM Vol9 No2, 1966 ), the term p-code first appeared in the early 1970s.
Its Ministerial Declaration was noted ( but not adopted ) July 18, 1996, and reflected a U. S. position statement presented by Timothy Wirth, former Under Secretary for Global Affairs for the U. S. State Department at that meeting, which:
Urs Ammann, a student of Niklaus Wirth, originally presented a p-code in his PhD thesis, from which the UCSD implementation was derived, the Zurich Pascal-P implementation.
Christian Wirth was ordered to temporarily move in to Treblinka to help clean up Eberl's mess.
Top-down design was promoted in the 1970s by IBM researcher Harlan Mills and Niklaus Wirth.
Since Niklaus Wirth went on to develop languages such as Modula and Oberon ( where one could define a module before knowing about the entire program specification ), one can infer that top down programming was not strictly what he promoted.
Wirth, a Democrat, was a member of the House from 1975 to 1987 and was elected to the Senate in 1986, serving one term there before stepping down.
His nephew, Peter Wirth, was elected in 2004 to the New Mexico State Legislature.
His brother, the late John Wirth, was the Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
Wirth began his political career as a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson and was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the Nixon Administration.
Following two decades of elected politics, Wirth was national Co-chair of the Clinton-Gore campaign, and served in the U. S. Department of State as the first Undersecretary for Global Affairs from 1993 to 1997.
The earliest EBNF was originally developed by Niklaus Wirth incorporating some of the concepts ( with a different syntax and notation ) from Wirth syntax notation.
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German Chancellor Wirth arranged for Krupp to secretly continue designing artillery and tanks, coordinating with army chief Von Seeckt and navy chief Paul Behncke.
Wirth had the leading position as a supervisor of all six euthanasia institutions in the Reich ; Hering as the non-medical chief of Sonnenstein ( Pirna, Saxony ) and Hadamar.
President Hindenburg, pushed by his camarilla and military chief Kurt von Schleicher, also advocated such a move and insisted on a cabinet reshuffle and especially the resignation of ministers Wirth and Guérard, both from the Centre Party.
From 1996 until 1999 Wirth was chief designer and later a board member of the Benetton Formula One team.
Wirth and designer
* Niklaus Wirth ( 1934 – Present ), Swiss computer scientist, designer of several programming languages
While at Berkeley, he supervised the research of pioneering programming language designer Niklaus Wirth, who gained his PhD in 1963.
Wirth and programming
Niklaus Emil Wirth ( born February 15, 1934 ) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering.
Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth ( creator of the Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2 programming languages ) and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
* Pascal ( programming language ), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth between 1968 and 1969
Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968 – 1969 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
Among other achievements, Niklaus Wirth, the developer of Pascal programming language, wrote the influential paper Program Development by Stepwise Refinement.
In 1985, Tesler worked with Niklaus Wirth to add object-oriented language extensions to the Pascal programming language, calling the new language Object Pascal.
Euler is a programming language created by Niklaus Wirth and Helmut Weber, conceived as an extension and generalization of ALGOL 60.
Wirth and languages
In contrast to languages in the C or Wirth traditions, some space characters between MUMPS statements are significant.
Before his work on Pascal, Wirth had developed Euler and ALGOL W and later went on to develop the Pascal-like languages Modula-2 and Oberon.
Some of the widely used formal metalanguages for computer languages are Backus – Naur Form ( BNF ), Extended Backus – Naur Form ( EBNF ), Wirth syntax notation ( WSN ), and Augmented Backus – Naur Form ( ABNF ).
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* In Herbivory of Leaf-Cutting Ants, by R. Wirth, H. Herz, R. J. Ryel, W. Beyschlag and B. Holldobler, 9 -.
The major researchers in the first Chicago School included Nels Anderson, Ernest Burgess, Ruth Shonle Cavan, Edward Franklin Frazier, Everett Hughes, Roderick D. McKenzie, George Herbert Mead, Robert E. Park, Walter C. Reckless, Edwin Sutherland, W. I. Thomas, Frederic Thrasher, Louis Wirth, Florian Znaniecki.
Niklaus Wirth based his own ALGOL W on ALGOL 60 before moving to develop Pascal.
Wirth and Pascal
* Pascal and its Successors paper by Niklaus Wirth – also includes short biography.
In 1985 Larry Tesler, in consultation with Niklaus Wirth, defined Object Pascal and these extensions were incorporated in both the Lisa Pascal and Mac Pascal compilers.
Niklaus Wirth credits the p-System, and UCSD Pascal in particular, with popularizing Pascal.
When Niklaus Wirth developed the first Pascal compiler for the CDC 6000, he found that it was faster overall to pass in the frame pointers as a chain, rather than constantly updating complete arrays of frame pointers.
Object Pascal is an extension of the Pascal language that was developed at Apple Computer by a team led by Larry Tesler in consultation with Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of Pascal.
Niklaus Wirth actually walked out of the design committee to create the simpler Pascal language.
* Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal, Modula and Oberon.
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