Bøger af Jürg Gutknecht

Thecircleisclosed.The European Modula-2 Conference was originally launched with the goal of increasing the popularity of Modula-2, a programming language created by Niklaus Wirth and his team at ETH Zuric * h as a successor of Pascal. For more than a decade, the conference has wandered through Europe, passing Bled,Slovenia,in1987,Loughborough,UK,in1990,Ulm,Germany,in1994,and Linz, Austria, in 1997. Now, at the beginning of the new millennium, it is back at its roots in Zuric * h, Switzerland. While traveling through space and time, the conference has mutated. It has widened its scope and changed its name to Joint Modular Languages Conference (JMLC). With an invariant focus, though, on modularsoftwareconstructioninteaching,research,and"e;outthere"e;inindustry. This topic has never been more important than today, ironically not because of insu?cient language support but, quite on the contrary, due to a truly c- fusing variety of modular concepts o?ered by modern languages: modules, pa- ages, classes, and components, the newest and still controversial trend. "e;The recent notion of component is still very vaguely de?ned, so vaguely, in fact, that it almost seems advisable to ignore it."e; (Wirth in his article "e;Records, Modules, Objects, Classes, Components"e; in honor of Hoare's retirement in 1999). Clar- cation is needed.

Niklaus Wirth is one of the great pioneers of computer technology. This book features essays that provide a range of contemporary views on modern programming practice and also illuminate the one persistent and pervasive quality found in his work: his unequivocal demand for simple solutions.