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ITWire covers
the passing of Niklaus Wirth.

Wirth is well-remembered for his pioneering work in programming
languages and algorithms. For these achievements, he received the
ACM Turing Award in 1984, inducted as a Fellow of the ACM in 1994,
and a Fellow of the Computer History Museum in 2004.

They include, among many, being chief designer for the programming
languages Euler (1965), PL360 (1966), ALGOL W (1968), Pascal
(1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2
(1991), and Oberon-07 (2007).