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Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist, born February 15, 1934 in Winterthur[?], Switzerland.
Wirth designed the programming languages Pascal, Modula and Oberon. His article Program Development by Stepwise Refinement is considered to be a classical text in software engineering. He wrote Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, which gained wide recognition and is still useful today. He received the Turing Award for the development of these languages. He retired in 1999.
- Biography (http://www.verw.ethz.ch/cgi-win/whoShow.exe/ws7?ID=806&lang=engl) at ETH Zurich
- Personal home page (http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/) at ETH Zurich
- Program Development by Stepwise Refinement (http://www.acm.org/classics/dec95/) Communications of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4, April 1971, pp. 221-227
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