Peter Pagé
Peter Pagé (8 July 1939 – 14 November 2020) was a German software pioneer. He joined Software AG in Darmstadt in 1971 as one of 6 employees and in 1975 became Vice President of Software AG. Page developed NATURAL as the first fourth-generation programming language, which was instrumental in Software AG's success.
Life
Pagé was born in
In 1971, Pagé joined the Institute for Applied Information Processing (AIV), from which Software AG later emerged. From 1975, together with Margit Neumann, he developed the innovative software development environment Natural as the first fourth-generation programming language. NATURAL revolutionized the creation of applications on mainframe computers with a completely interactive way of working. This has resulted in significant increases in productivity and shorter implementation times for application solutions.[2][3]
From 1977 Pagé as a member of the
In the following year, he received his doctorate from TU Berlin. The title of his PhD thesis was "Object-Oriented Software in Commercial Applications".[7]
In 1994, Pagé joined
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- ISSN 0010-4841.
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