I was introduced to computers during the microprocessor / home computer era of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was a bunch of tinkerers and amateurs who went on to found companies like Apple and Microsoft. When I turned pro and went to school to study computing my influences were a group of older European academics like Hoare, Dijkstra and Wirth. These were the folks who really lead the way and solved the problems that nobody else could solve. We wouldn’t be where we are without them.

REMEMBERING NIKLAUS WIRTH: FATHER OF PASCAL AND INSPIRATION TO MANY