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Niklaus Wirth Is Born On February 15, 1934
Niklaus Wirth Zodiac Sign Is Aquarius
Niklaus Wirth Zodiac Symbol Is Water Bearer
Niklaus Wirth Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Wood
Niklaus Wirth Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Dog
Niklaus Wirth Occupation Is Scientist
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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
I have never designed a language for its own sake. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
I know of a particular, very large software producer that explicitly assumes that design takes 20% of developers time, and debugging takes 80%. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Programming is usually taught by examples. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
The creative activity of programming - to be distinguished from coding - is usually taught by examples serving to exhibit certain techniques. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages. - Niklaus Wirth Quotes
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