Conversation

Notices

1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:25:26 EST clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Father of the Wirth family of languages, most famously Pascal, Niklaus Wirth would have been 90 years old in a few weeks. He passed away three days ago.

   Apart from programming languages, both his own and collaboration and standardization with others, he also contributed to our body of knowledge in algorithms, methodology, user interfaces and OSes, much of which still hasn't seen its full potential. He will influence the field for decades to come.

   Thank you for your work, Wirth. Pascal was the second programming language I learned and it influenced me greatly in my early years. I have yet to check out your later work, but it's been on my list for a long time.

   Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_…

   I heard about it /via fosstodon.org/@shawnhooper/111… @Shawn Hooper (he/him)

   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 20:48:34 EST lnxw48a1

      in reply to
      I was unaware of Wirth's passing. Thanks for the post.
      
      I took an intro class with Pascal at the same time I was doing a C course, so Pascal could be my 2nd or 3rd language (being preceded by various dialects of BASIC from the 1970s onward).