From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth!
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:19:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180214231939.GB87639@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1802150801090.5573@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thursday, 15 February 2018 at 8:06:36 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth was born on this day in 1934; he basically
> designed ALGOL, one of the most influential languages ever, with just
> about every programming language in use today tracing its roots to it.
>
> His name is pronounced "vurt"
Maybe some English speakers pronounce it like that. In German it's,
well, "Wirth". English speakers might write it as "veart", where the
"ea" is as in the word "hear" or "fear".
Greg
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-14 21:06 Dave Horsfall
2018-02-14 21:12 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-14 22:15 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-14 23:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-14 21:24 ` Toby Thain
2018-02-16 0:01 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-16 0:51 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-16 1:06 ` Clem cole
2018-02-16 3:10 ` Toby Thain
2018-02-16 13:36 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-16 1:18 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 1:55 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-16 1:56 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-02-16 2:38 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-16 2:41 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 2:51 ` Dan Cross
2018-02-16 2:56 ` George Michaelson
2018-02-16 2:51 ` [TUHS] Clueless programmers - was " Toby Thain
2018-02-16 2:55 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 10:26 ` [TUHS] " Tim Bradshaw
2018-02-16 1:25 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-24 0:59 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-24 3:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-24 4:31 ` Dan Stromberg
2018-04-24 13:42 ` Clem Cole
2018-02-16 2:09 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-16 2:31 ` Toby Thain
2018-02-16 10:01 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-02-16 12:10 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-16 12:37 ` tfb
2018-02-16 13:34 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-16 14:07 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-16 20:13 ` tfb
2018-02-16 3:17 ` Dan Stromberg
2018-02-14 23:19 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2018-02-14 23:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-02-15 17:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-02-15 19:18 ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-15 20:56 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-02-15 21:31 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-02-15 2:30 ` Nemo
2018-02-16 2:19 Noel Chiappa
2018-02-16 2:48 ` Larry McVoy
2018-02-16 4:19 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-02-16 11:27 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-02-16 15:45 ` Nemo
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2018-02-16 2:40 ` Paul McJones
2018-02-16 13:42 Noel Chiappa
2018-02-16 21:02 ` Tim Bradshaw
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2018-02-16 17:40 ` Paul McJones
2018-02-16 19:24 ` Bakul Shah
2018-02-18 20:50 Norman Wilson
2018-02-19 0:28 ` Dave Horsfall
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