5 Jan
2024
5 Jan
'24
12:39 a.m.
Many thanks Liam. N. Wirth, the man and his creation(s), has a special
place in my understanding of computers and how programming works - the way
it should. Great men do change things and in N. Wirth's case much for the
better in the computing world and dare I say beyond.
Murray 🙂
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 5:38 PM Rob Jarratt via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Sad news but a great article Liam, thanks for the
interesting history.
The second language I taught myself was Algol 68 (!), on a DECSYSTEM20. I
learned Pascal at University, when I did my M.Sc I used VAX Pascal on a VAX
11/780 and went on to use it as my first professional language. I loved VAX
Pascal, I could do just about anything I wanted with it. Of course, it
wasn't very "pure" Pascal.
Incidentally, I have asked a couple of times before, but if anyone knows
of any media with Algol68C for PDP10 I would love to get hold of it.
Regards
Rob
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Subject: [cctalk] RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator
Niklaus Wirth
Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an
OS was 89
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
The great man has left us. I wrote an obituary.
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