I think it's that he passed recently > 1 January 2024(2024-01-01) (aged 89) [0] Quite a life. Sowed the seeds of what we consider common sense today "Softwar

I think it's that he passed recently > 1 January 2024(2024-01-01) (aged 89) [0] Quite a life. Sowed the seeds of what we consider common sense today "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster" Stepwise Refinement of programs (keeping all but one variable fixed - scientific method for programming) the top-down method for designing programs Lots of formalisms for programming (quite rigorous) Designed about 8 programming languages Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs Quite a giant! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth