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Niklaus Wirth is one of those unsung geniuses of computer science. He invented Pascal, the Modulas, Oberon ... Then he woke up one morning wanting to reboot hi
by eeks 8y ago
Niklaus Wirth is one of those unsung geniuses of computer science. He invented Pascal, the Modulas, Oberon ...
Then he woke up one morning wanting to reboot his life's work for his class and, undeterred by the fact the original targeted processor did not exist anymore, settled to write his own computer architecture on a Xilinx Spartan.
He then successfully ported the Oberon system and compiler to this architecture to demonstrate to his students.
Just wow.
- Nokinside 8y agoWirth is one of the rare geniuses who can do the "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." Just reading the code he writes make me feel slightly elevated.
- vidarh 8y agoThe line counts in the article just really drives home how obsessed he is with simplicity (obsessed in a good way...)
- prestonbriggs 8y agoUnsung? He won a Turing award.