HTML version of #Wirth’s original #Modula-2 paper.
on 02026-09-28#Wirth’s scanned #paper introducing #Modula.
on 02026-09-28#Wirth’s scanned #paper introducing #Modula-2.
on 02026-09-28#Wirth’s “On the design of programming languages” #paper from, I don’t know, 01973. #PDF scan
on 02026-03-04““Being a developer myself I needed a tool that would make me more productive,” [#Borland founder Philippe] Kahn told eWEEK. “I had worked on integrated development environments as a student of Niklaus #Wirth at the ETH [Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule] in Zurich. I give a lot of credit to Niklaus for inspiration.
Then it was a matter of putting it all together. My partner wrote the compiler, and it was fast. Yet most of the development time was used in going back and forth between source code and execution. Then debugging the executed program. So we decided that a fast one-pass compiler was the way to go because it allowed us to pinpoint runtime errors right into the source code,” Kahn said.” #history
on 02025-10-12#Wirth’s page on #Wirth-RISC
on 02022-05-21#Wirth’s CPU #hardware "Wirth RISC" explained at some more length. #PDF #smallisbeautiful
on 02020-06-20#Wirth designed a very simple CPU for #Oberon (etc.) he calls just “RISC”, though it's not the Berkeley RISC. So I keep calling it the #Wirth-RISC. #hardware #PDF #smallisbeautiful
on 02020-06-20