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From: mutiny.mutiny at india.com (Donald ODona)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth!
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:17:49 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1018434267.162933.1550222269508.JavaMail.tomcat@india-live-be02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1902151656480.54652@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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Pascal was his creation.


At 15 Feb 2019 06:09:01 +0000 (+00:00) from Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>:
> Almost forgot...
> 
> Born on this day in 1934, he pretty much invented ALGOL (and algorithmic 
> languages in general; the running joke was that you could call him by 
> name or by value)...  From Clem Cole: "The actual joke was Europeans 
> called him by name ("ni-klaus vurt") and Americans by value ("nickel-less 
> worth").​
> 
> -- Dave


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-15  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-15  6:08 dave
2019-02-15  6:46 ` bakul
2019-02-15 14:13   ` stewart
2019-02-15 23:13     ` cym224
2019-02-15  9:17 ` mutiny.mutiny [this message]

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