New Book: The School of Niklaus Wirth

The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity
Edited by Laszlo Boeszoermenyi, Jurg Gutknecht, and Gustav Pomberger


Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, October 2000


Niklaus Wirth is one of the great pioneers of computer technology and
winner of the ACM's A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious award in
computer science. he has made substantial contributions to the
development of programming languages, compiler construction,
programming methodology, and hardware design. While working at ERH
Zurich, he developed the languages Pascal and Modula-2. He also
designed an early high performance workstation, the Personal Computer
Lilith, and most recently the language and operating system Oberon.


While Wirth has often been praised for his excellent work as a
language designer and engineer, he is also an outstanding educator -
something for which he is not as well known. This book brings together
prominent computer scientists to describe Wirth's contributions to
education. With the exception of some of his colleagues such as
Professors Dijkstra, Hoare, and Rechenberg, all of the contributors to
this book are students of Wirth. The essays provide a wide range of
contemporary views on modern programming practice and also illuminate
the one persistent and pervasive quality found in all his work: his
unequivocal demand for simple solutions. The authors and editors hope
to pass on their enthusiasm for simple engineering solutions along
with their feeling for a man to whom they are all so indebted.


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Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
San Francisco, California
http://www.mkp.com
orders@mkp.com
[If anyone's read this book and wants to send in a short review, I'd
be happy to post it. -John]

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