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Niklaus Wirth

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.


— Niklaus Wirth


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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.


— Niklaus Wirth


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But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.


— Niklaus Wirth


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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.


— Niklaus Wirth


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The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.


— Niklaus Wirth


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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.


— Niklaus Wirth


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Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.


— Niklaus Wirth


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Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.


— Niklaus Wirth


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I have never designed a language for its own sake.


— Niklaus Wirth


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Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.


— Niklaus Wirth


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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. From 1963 to 1967 he served as assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and again at the University of Zurich. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

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. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

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