From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:08:14 +1100 (EST) Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth! Message-ID: 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