A Digital Contrarian Retires - http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt/mdlt79.htm
Short professional biography and history of Professor Niklaus Wirth. By Beat Gerber, in The ModulaTor. |
ACM: A.M. Turing Award: Niklaus Wirth - http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1025774&srt=W&aw=140&ao=AMTURING
The Association for Computing Machinery gave Wirth the prestigious Alan M. Turing Award in 1984: For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, Euler, Algol-W, Modula, Pascal. Pascal has become pedagogically significant and has provided a foundation for future computer language, systems, and architectural research. |
Mod51 Structured Text Programming Language - http://www.designtools.co.nz/mod51.htm
Mix of structured text language of IEC1131, and ISO Modula-2; optimized for the most common 8-bit controller, the Intel C51 core, mainly for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), embedded controls. |
Niklaus Wirth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
Growing article, with links to related topics. Wikipedia. |
Program Development by Stepwise Refinement - http://www.acm.org/classics/dec95/
By Niklaus Wirth; Communications of the ACM, April 1971. Programming is usually taught by examples. Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. Unfortunately, they are too often selected with the prime intent to demonstrate what a computer can do. Instead, a main criterion for selection should be their suitability to exhibit certain widely applicable techniques. [ACM] |