Frases de Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Emil Wirth é um professor de informática suíço.

Criador das linguagens de programação Pascal, Modula-2 e Oberon.

Graduado em engenharia eletrónica pelo Instituto Federal de Tecnologia de Zurique em 1959, M.Sc. na Universidade Laval em 1960, e Ph.D. na Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley em 1963.

Wirth foi um Professor/Assistente na ciência de computadores na Universidade de Stanford , e em seguida na Universidade de Zurique. Em 1968 tornou-se professor de informática na ETH Zurique. Ele permaneceu dois anos na Xerox PARC, na Califórnia, e aposentou-se em abril de 1999.

✵ 15. Fevereiro 1934
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Niklaus Wirth: Frases em inglês

“… we do not consider it as good engineering practice to consume a resource lavishly just because it happens to be cheap.”

Niklaus Wirth (2013) " Project Oberon https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf". Section 2.3, p. 19.

“Programming is usually taught by examples.”

Program Development by Stepwise Refinement (1971)

“Go To statement considered harmful.”

Often attributed to Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, but it was the title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968). However The original title of " A Case against the GO TO Statement http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215.html" (EWD215, PDF here http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD215.PDF, ACM has its own copy http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95 online) was changed by the editor Niklaus Wirth, to speed up publication. Dijkstra explains it himself in EWD1308 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1308.html (see near the end of the article).

“Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.”

[A Plea for Lean Software, http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/co/&toc=comp/mags/co/1995/02/r2toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/2.348001, 2007-01-13, Computer, 1995, February, 28, 2, pp. 64-68]
Variation: Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating.
aka "Wirth's law"

“Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.”

Niklaus Wirth (1999) " A Digital Contrarian Retires http://www.modulaware.com/mdlt/mdlt79.htm". Beat Gerber eds., June 1999.

“In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.”

Niklaus Wirth (1997) " A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth http://www.eptacom.net/pubblicazioni/pub_eng/wirth.html". Dr Carlo Pescio eds. June 1997.