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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. – Niklaus Wirth

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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. – Niklaus Wirth

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Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming. – Niklaus Wirth

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But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs. – Niklaus Wirth

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