Nicolas Wirth1?

Software engineer. Inventor of the ProgrammingLanguages? Algol-W, Pascal, Modula2 and Oberon. Pascal and Modula2 are the most influental. Modula2 and Oberon were SystemsProgrammingLanguages? he used to create OperatingSystems?.

He favours simpicity in programming language design2?, perhaps just a little too much for some programmers' comfort. It's said that Modula2 would be everyone's favorite programming language if it only had one more feature, but no one agrees on what that feature should be.

1? Pronounced "Virt". There's a little joke about that, but I'm not geeky enough to want to tell you it.
I am: Europeans call him by name, while American's call him by Value

2? though not to the extreme that ChuckMoore does