Niklaus Wirth, creator of the Pascal programming language, died on January 1, 2024 at the age of 90. This is reported by TASS with reference to a statement by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

The Swiss scientist was one of the leading computer scientists and a winner of the Turing Award, the most prestigious award in the field. He created several innovative computer languages, including Pascal, which had a huge impact on the development of programming.

Pascal was developed in 1970 and quickly became a popular language for teaching programming. It was easy to learn and use, yet powerful enough to create complex applications.

Wirth also developed the Euler, Algol-W, Modula and Oberon programming languages.