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“Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.”

Quote by Niklaus Wirth

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Niklaus Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist renowned for his contributions to programming languages and algorithm design. His most famous works include the programming language Pascal and Modula-2, as well as the Wirth algorithm. Wirth's work has had a profound impact on the development of computer science. more

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