Editing Niklaus Wirth (section)

==Programming languages==
[[File:Niklaus Wirth large.jpg|thumb|left|Wirth in 1969]]

Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages [[Euler (programming language)|Euler]] (1965), [[PL360]] (1966), [[ALGOL W]] (1966), Pascal (1970),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Petzold |first=Charles |date=9 September 1996 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/09/business/programming-languages-survivors-and-wannabes.html |title=Programming Languages: Survivors and Wannabes |work=The New York Times |access-date=8 March 2018 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=9 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309120313/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/09/business/programming-languages-survivors-and-wannabes.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Modula]] (1975), Modula-2 (1978),<ref name="Pioneer"/> Oberon (1987), [[Oberon-2]] (1991), and [[Oberon (programming language)#Oberon-07|Oberon-07]] (2007).<ref>{{Cite report |last=Wirth |first=Niklaus |date=3 May 2016 |url=https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf |title=The Programming Language Oberon-07 |website=ETH Zurich, Department of Computer Science |access-date=17 January 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121212848/http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the operating systems Medos-2 (1983, for the [[Lilith (computer)|Lilith]] [[workstation]]),<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Knudsen |first1=Svend Erik |title=Medos-2: a Modula-2 oriented operating system for the personal computer Lilith |date=1983 |publisher=ETH Zurich |doi=10.3929/ethz-a-000300091 |hdl=20.500.11850/137906 |url=https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/137906 |type=Doctoral Thesis |language=en |quote=I am indebted to Prof. N. Wirth for conceiving and coordinating the Lilith project, for giving me the opportunity to design and implement the operating system Medos-2, and for supervising this thesis. |access-date=4 January 2024 |archive-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104010513/https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/137906 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Oberon (operating system)|Oberon]] (1987, for the [[Ceres (workstation)|Ceres]] workstation),<ref>{{cite book |last=Franz |first=Michael |editor-last=Böszörményi |editor-first=László |date=2000 |chapter=Oberon: The Overlooked Jewel |title=The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity |publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing |isbn=978-3-932588-85-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kHs4s-79bkC&q=oberon |pages=42, 45}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Proven |first=Liam |date=29 March 2022 |url=https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/29/non_c_operating_systems/ |title=The wild world of non-C operating systems |work=[[The Register]] |access-date=4 April 2024}}</ref> and for the [[Lola (computing)|Lola]] (1995) [[digital hardware]] design and simulation system.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wirth |first=Niklaus |date=1995 |title=Digital Circuit Design |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9773540585771/ |publisher=Springer |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Eberle |first=Hans |editor-last=Böszörményi |editor-first=László |date=2000 |title=The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity |publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing |isbn=978-3-932588-85-3 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kHs4s-79bkC&q=lola |language=en |chapter=Designing a Cluster Network |quote=This class also inspired Niklaus to develop a simple yet powerful hardware description language called Lola. Niklaus has always built the systems he is either researching or teaching himself since he knows that this is the only way to keep an engineer honest and credible.}}</ref>

In 1984, Wirth received the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (ACM) [[Turing Award]] for the development of these languages.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/wirth_1025774.cfm |title=Niklaus E. Wirth |last=Haigh |first=Thomas |year=1984 |website=A. M. Turing Award |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |access-date=15 October 2019 |archive-date=19 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919130323/http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/wirth_1025774.cfm |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the ACM.<ref>{{cite web |title=ACM Fellows by year |url=https://awards.acm.org/fellows/award-recipients?year=1994&award=158&region=&submit=Submit&isSpecialCategory= |website=acm.org |access-date=3 January 2024 |archive-date=3 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103222946/https://awards.acm.org/fellows/award-recipients?year=1994&award=158&region=&submit=Submit&isSpecialCategory= |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1999, he received the [[ACM SIGSOFT]] Outstanding Research Award<ref>{{cite web |title=Outstanding Research Award |website=[[SIGSOFT]] |url=https://www2.sigsoft.org/awards/outstandingresearch |access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>