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Like 20 April at 9:30 | Open on appdot.net

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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
http://projectoberon.net
because it needs a VM)

#pascal #NiklausWirth

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https://nitter.net/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347
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
http://projectoberon.net
because it needs a VM)

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

Roger Sen

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

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

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/LeanSoftware.pdf

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.