From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:06:36 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth! Message-ID: 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" but he would accept "worth", and he joked that you could call him by name or by value (you need to know ALGOL to understand). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."