Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024)—An Appreciation

Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the languages Pascal and Modula, passed away on 1 January 2024, in Zurich. He was 89. His work, at the dawn of the structured programming revolution, affected many computer scientists deeply, and, I think, was a driver for our being able to produce amounts of working code that would be unimaginable in the 1960 s.