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Bertrand Meyer
We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and friend
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Aw. Go write some Pascal today (I'd write some Modula-2 if gcc would ship) (I've never got too far into
projectoberon.net
because it needs a VM)

#pascal #NiklausWirth

3 January at 19:41 | Open on appdot.net
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Roger Sen

@mdhughes Wirth is dead. A giant is no more.

It’s time to re-read and apply A Plea for Lean Software.

people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Artic

3 January at 19:57 | Open on mastodon.social
rob pike

@mdhughes I'll really miss him. He was one of the good ones, always supportive and interested in what people were working on. A quiet, gentle man who could surprise you on occasion with a deeply amusing story to deflate some famous personage. Also, by the way, a profoundly influential computer scientist. And Pascal's weird I/O wasn't really his fault.

3 January at 20:34 | Open on hachyderm.io
eiZen

@mdhughes Gnah. As if I had a feeling with my Turbo Pascal journey earlier today... strange.
3 January at 23:43 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Dr. Fortyseven β—£ β—₯β—£ β—₯ πŸ₯ƒ

@eiZen @mdhughes OOF... This really got to me. 😒

If you don't count Z80 assembler (?!) Pascal was my first 'modern' language after BASIC in the early 90s. It carried me many many years before I finally (FINALLY!) took the leap to C and Allegro/DJGPP later in the decade. Not sure where I'd be today without those early Borlandian steps. 🍻

3 January at 23:58 | Open on defcon.social
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