Niklaus Wirth, a Swiss computer scientist who was chief designer of nine programming languages, including Pascal, Delphi, and Modula/Modula-2, and was a software engineering visionary who advocated for lean software, died on Jan. 1, six weeks short of his 90th birthday.
In 1995, he popularized what is now known as Wirth’s Law, which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
Wirth received the industry’s most prestigious accolade, the Turing Award, in 1984.
