From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mutiny.mutiny at india.com (Donald ODona)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:17:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth!
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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