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Wirth, Niklaus
Page in Departement Informatik, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland. Projects, honours, books, articles.
http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/
Mod51 Structured Text Programming Language
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.
http://www.designtools.co.nz/mod51.htm
ACM: A.M. Turing Award: Niklaus Wirth
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.
http://www.acm.org/awards/turing_citations/wirth.html
Program Development by Stepwise Refinement
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]
http://www.acm.org/classics/dec95/
Mill, Hill & Canterbury Corp. Ltd.
Makes, sells several Wirth languages (Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon-2) for Java: run on Java virtual machine, compilers implemented in plain Java, can output Java sources or byte codes, directly import classes from any Java package.
http://www.webcom.com/mhc/
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