[COFF] Sad news: Niklaus Wirth

[COFF] Sad news: Niklaus Wirth

[Dan Cross]

[TUHS as Bcc]

I just saw sad news from Bertrand Meyer. Apparently, Niklaus Wirth
passed away on the 1st. :-(

I think it's fair to say that it is nearly impossible to overstate his
influence on modern programming.

        - Dan C.

[COFF] Re: [TUHS] Sad news: Niklaus Wirth

[Brantley Coile]

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Sorry to hear. 

I knew him, I flew us across the US in a small single engine airplane, a rare blessing in a blessed life. We share the month of February as a birth date and would exchange emails every year. (Thompson is another in the February club.) 

Dennis once said that if you look at C and Pascal you might think there was information exchange, even though there was none. Oberon is Pascal++, ++.

Over the years C got more type-safe and Klaus' language got more flexible. Most of the objections to Pascal were gone after he designed Oberon.

Very sad.

Brantley 


> On Jan 3, 2024, at 2:35 PM, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [TUHS as Bcc]
> 
> I just saw sad news from Bertrand Meyer. Apparently, Niklaus Wirth
> passed away on the 1st. :-(
> 
> I think it's fair to say that it is nearly impossible to overstate his
> influence on modern programming.
> 
>        - Dan C.

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