Time for a black bar on the front page. Wirth had been around since forever, influencing how we and generations before us program.
Niklaus Wirth has died
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#12I'm happy to say I got to meet him, thanks to Charles Simonyi. May his memory be a blessing.
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#13Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler (1965), PL360 (1966), ALGOL W (1966), Pascal (1970), Modula (1975), Modula-2 (1978), Oberon (1987), Oberon-2 (1991), and Oberon-07 (2007). He was also a major part of the design and implementation team for the operating systems Medos-2 (1983, for the Lilith workstation), and Oberon (1987, for the Ceres workstation), and for the Lola (1995) digital hardware design and simulation system. In 1984, he received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Turing Award for the development of these languages.
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#14I don't see obituaries yet. In the meantime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
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#15now would be a good time read this in his memory https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
Also, his Oberon system provides a rich seam to mine. This, from a symposium held at ETH Zurich on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2014, is a whirlwind retrospective. "Reviving a computer system of 25 years ago" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXY78gPMvl0
One of the greats.
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#16@HN: Black banner, please?
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#17I loved the book Compiler Construction. Wirth's emphasis on minimalism is a huge inspiration.
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#19Besides his contribution to language design, he authored one of the best puns ever. His last name is properly pronounced something like "Virt" but in the US everyone calls him by "Worth".
That led him to quip, "In Europe I'm called by name, but in the US I'm called by value."
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Since Twitter is suppressing the visibility of tweets that link outside their site I think it would be perfectly fair to block links to twitter, rewrite them to nitter, etc. There also ought to be gentle pressure on people who post to Twitter to move to some other site. I mean, even I've got a Bluesky invite now.