# Niklaus Wirth (@niklaus-wirth)

Niklaus Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist. Wirth designed Pascal to support clear, structured programming and teaching, later creating Modula and Oberon.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Niklaus Wirth's public record._

## Topics

- [Wirth's Law](/@niklaus-wirth/wirth-s-law.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Language and System Co-Design](/@niklaus-wirth/language-and-system-co-design.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Pascal](/@niklaus-wirth/pascal.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/wirth_1025774.cfm
- blog: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/01/niklaus-wirth-is-dead.html
- blog: https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "niklaus-wirth", "question": "…"}`.