Niklaus Wirth has died
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Niklaus Wirth has died
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this is terrible news;
is there a better source than twitter (edit: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html thanks to johndoe0815);
wirth was the greatest remaining apostle of simplicity, correctness, and software built for humans to understand; now only hoare and moore remain, and moore seems to have given the reins at greenarrays to a younger generation;
young people may not be aware of the practical, as opposed to academic, significance of his work, so let me point out that begin
the ide as we know it today was born as turbo pascal;
most early macintosh software was written in pascal, including for example macpaint;
robert griesemer, one of the three original designers of golang, was wirth's student and did his doctoral thesis on an extension of oberon, and wirth's languages were also a very conspicuous design inspiration for newsqueak;
tex is written in pascal;
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#3R.I.P.
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#5begin this is terrible news; is there a better source than twitter (edit: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html thanks to johndoe0815); wirth was the greatest remaining apostle of simplicity, correctness, and software built for humans to understand; now only hoare and moore remain, and moore seems to have given the reins at greenarrays to a younger generation; young people may not be aware of th…
No better source yet, I think.
But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.
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#8begin this is terrible news; is there a better source than twitter (edit: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html thanks to johndoe0815); wirth was the greatest remaining apostle of simplicity, correctness, and software built for humans to understand; now only hoare and moore remain, and moore seems to have given the reins at greenarrays to a younger generation; young people may not be aware of th…
No better source yet, I think. But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.
yeah, and i hope meyer would know
but still, it's twitter, liable to vanish or block non-logged-in access at any moment
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#9begin this is terrible news; is there a better source than twitter (edit: https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html thanks to johndoe0815); wirth was the greatest remaining apostle of simplicity, correctness, and software built for humans to understand; now only hoare and moore remain, and moore seems to have given the reins at greenarrays to a younger generation; young people may not be aware of th…
No better source yet, I think. But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.
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Re: Niklaus Wirth has died
#10I owe a debt of gratitude to him and the Pascal programming language. Sincerest condolences to those he left behind.