[eeks]

Niklaus Wirth is one of those unsung geniuses of computer science. He invented Pascal, the Modulas, Oberon ...

Then he woke up one morning wanting to reboot his life's work for his class and, undeterred by the fact the original targeted processor did not exist anymore, settled to write his own computer architecture on a Xilinx Spartan.

He then successfully ported the Oberon system and compiler to this architecture to demonstrate to his students.

Just wow.

[Nokinside]

Wirth is one of the rare geniuses who can do the "Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." Just reading the code he writes make me feel slightly elevated.

[vidarh]

The line counts in the article just really drives home how obsessed he is with simplicity (obsessed in a good way...)

[prestonbriggs]

Unsung? He won a Turing award.

[romwell]

Yeah, but most people don't know him for much more than Pascal.

I am aware of Oberon and Modula, but had never got a chance to touch them. And that's much more of his work than Pascal.

[agumonkey]

mainstream unsung then