Professor Niklaus Wirth, creator of the Pascal programming language and Turing Award winner, took some time for me on February 9, 2021 to chat a little about his career.

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00:23 CV
06:38 Greetings
08:01 Early developments: Turing machine and Zuse's "Plankalkül"
10:55 Zuse Z4 at the ETH Zurich
11:08 am Swiss computer pioneers: Eduard Stiefel, Heinz Rutishauser and Ambros Speiser
16:25 Time after graduation as an electrical engineer
16:55 Emigration to Canada and the USA, California
18:22 Time at Laval University of Québec, tube computer Alvac IIIE
20:43 Difficult exams at the University of California Berkeley
22:19 Early programming languages Fortran, Lisp and COBOL
22:38 Neliac and doctoral thesis “Euler, a Generalization of Algol”
25:22 Wirth's tendency towards clarity and tidying up
26:24 Assistant to Professor Harry Huskey and Bendix G15
27:19 Standford University and Burroughs B5000
27:49 Algol 58/60
29:13 Blocks with BEGIN / END vs. brackets
30:24 IFIP Working Group 2.1
31:34 Pascal
33:10 Procedure for selecting the language scope
34:48 Bootstrap process for Pascal with Scallop
36:21 PascalP with a hypothetical machine
38:55 Borland Turbopascal and Delphi
40:29 Modula a successor to Pascal inspired by Mesa
42:57 Oberon as successor to Modula
44:53 Problem of the large software base with commercial languages like C ++
46:06 Idea of an intelligent translation between programming languages
49:03 Why didn't Xerox PARC market their innovations?
50:58 The Lilith workstation
54:56 Encounter with the IBM PC
55:31 The Lilith project with Prof. Richard Ohran
58:10 The name Lilith

Links:

Homepage of Niklaus Wirth: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth
Oberon project: http://www.projectoberon.com
Blog about the film: http://www.holzheu.de/schweizerinfor...

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Music used:

Successful Connections In A Technological World (MusicLFiles): https://filmmusic.io/song/6998succes...

Changelog:

03/10/2021 First version