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Niklaus Wirth and the art of simplicity

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Prof. Niklaus Wirth

Prof. Niklaus Wirth, one of the great pioneers of computer technology, has been praised as a designer of programming languages, compilers, operating systems and even hardware, and his research is strongly guided by the constant search for simplicity, clarity and efficiency. The following interview sought not only to highlight Niklaus Wirth’s contemporary views on the latest technological developments, but also to capture, to some degree, the personality of the computer scientist through and through.

30.01.2014 by Minh Tran

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