Curated Quotations

Niklaus Wirth

Quotations

  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.” -Niklaus Wirth

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  • “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

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  • “In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.” -Niklaus Wirth

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