Professor Niklaus Wirth, creator of the Pascal programming language and Turing Award winner, took some time for me on February 9, 2021 to chat a little about his career. Anchor links: 00:23 CV 06:38 Greetings 08:01 Early developments: Turing machine and Zuse's "Plankalkül" 10:55 Zuse Z4 at the ETH Zurich 11:08 am Swiss computer pioneers: Eduard Stiefel, Heinz Rutishauser and Ambros Speiser 16:25 Time after graduation as an electrical engineer 16:55 Emigration to Canada and the USA, California 18:22 Time at Laval University of Québec, tube computer Alvac III-E 20:43 Difficult exams at the University of California Berkeley 22:19 Early programming languages Fortran, Lisp and COBOL 22:38 Neliac and doctoral thesis “Euler, a Generalization of Algol” 25:22 Wirth's tendency towards clarity and tidying up 26:24 Assistant to Professor Harry Huskey and Bendix G-15 27:19 Standford University and Burroughs B5000 27:49 Algol 58/60 29:13 Blocks with BEGIN / END vs. brackets 30:24 IFIP Working Group 2.1 31:34 Pascal 33:10 Procedure for selecting the language scope 34:48 Bootstrap process for Pascal with Scallop 36:21 Pascal-P with a hypothetical machine 38:55 Borland Turbopascal and Delphi 40:29 Modula a successor to Pascal inspired by Mesa 42:57 Oberon as successor to Modula 44:53 Problem of the large software base with commercial languages like C ++ 46:06 Idea of an intelligent translation between programming languages 49:03 Why didn't Xerox PARC market their innovations? 50:58 The Lilith workstation 54:56 Encounter with the IBM PC 55:31 The Lilith project with Prof. Richard Ohran 58:10 The name Lilith Links: - Homepage of Niklaus Wirth: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth - Oberon project: http://www.projectoberon.com/ - Blog about the film: http://www.holzheu.de/schweizer-informatik-im-winter Recommended Playlists: - Computers simply explained:    • Computer einfach erklärt   - Computer Museums:    • Computermuseen   - Contemporary witnesses of computer history:    • Zeitzeugen der Computergeschichte   Music used: - Successful Connections In A Technological World (MusicLFiles): https://filmmusic.io/song/6998-successful-connections-in-a-technological-world Changelog: 03/10/2021 First version