Niklaus Wirth

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• Lead now names Modula 2 and Oberon explicitly where before only Pascal was named.
• Early life wording changes the father's occupation and adds the ETH start year 1954.
• The year for Oberon in the languages list was changed from 1987 to 1988.

Replace “He was the son of Hedwig née Keller and Walter Wirth a high school teacher Wirth studied electronic engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology Zürich ETH.” with “He was the son of Hedwig née Keller and Walter Wirth who taught geography at the gymnasium in Winterthur Wirth studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich from 1954 and received his.”. Add: He designed a series of programming language s among them Pascal Modula 2 and Oberon. Replace “Oberon 1987” with “Oberon 1988”.

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