From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth!
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:08:14 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1902151656480.54652@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
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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
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2019-02-15 6:08 dave [this message]
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
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