Niklaus Wirth, creator of PASCAL programming language...

Niklaus Wirth, creator of PASCAL programming language and much more, dies at 89. Peace.

Like 3 January at 22:41 | Open on mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

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3 January at 23:49 | Open on universeodon.com

@lauren you may call him by his name or by his value

4 January at 0:05 | Open on octodon.social

@lauren I was quite taken with his Pascal successor, Modula-2, and was sorry that it didn’t get more traction in the dev community.

4 January at 0:23 | Open on hachyderm.io

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@lauren
I Never really got into PASCAL, but I did toy with a few implementations, and I did enjoy the difference between `=` and `:=`.

I could tell that was an effort to make things less ambiguous, and I appreciated that effort.

4 January at 0:36 | Open on phpc.social

@lewiscowles1986 I experimented at one time with Turbo Pascal under CP/M if memory serves.

4 January at 0:57 | Open on mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

The thing I will always appreciate about Turbo Pascal on CP/M is that the code was compiled before my finger came off the "compile" key.

Wirth was sensitive to resource-limited environments (ditto Modula).

4 January at 1:03 | Open on mstdn.io

@tarheel @lewiscowles1986 Limited resources, ha! I had 64K of dynamic RAM!

4 January at 1:07 | Open on mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

What, no bank-switching? You poor boy. <patronizing pat-on-the-head hug emoji/>

4 January at 1:10 | Open on mstdn.io

@tarheel @lewiscowles1986 Had that too. But I was proud of that S-100 64K card.

4 January at 1:12 | Open on mastodon.laurenweinstein.org

S-100. Now I'm jealous.

4 January at 3:51 | Open on mstdn.io

@lauren my first programming language!

4 January at 1:03 | Open on kolektiva.social