World laureates sound off in Hainan

Niklaus Wirth, 1984 Turing Award

Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler, ALGOL W, Pascal, Modula, Modular-2, Oberon, Oberon-2 and Oberon-7. He received the Association for Computing Machinery's Turing Award for the development of these languages in 1984. In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the association.

"Overall, I see that China has made tremendous progress. I have a good friend who has an electronics company, and he moved the production of products to China-first to Taiwan, until it became too expensive there, and then to Shanghai, and when that became too expensive, then to Suzhou. I have a very strong feeling that China is making a gigantic effort."

"It is very important to have good teachers and good schools to raise them, and also to teach people to think for themselves, which is absolutely fundamental."