Shawn Hooper (he/him) on Nostr: Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms ...
Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", and more, passed away on January 1.
Wirth's law, named after him, is an adage which states that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.
#programming #computerscience
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