Niklaus Wirth died aged 89

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The inventor of pascal programming language has sadly died at the age of 89

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/28/niklaus-wirth-pascal-software-dies/

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I took Pascal on cards in college. At the home of the “first automated electronic digital computer”. The Atanasoff-Berry computer.

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Wirth contributed a lot to structured programming.
Pascal was meant to be a teaching language.
One of the best ways to learn C programming, is to
learn Pascal first.

and the famous quotes
“Programming is usually taught by examples.”
and
“People seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication”

“Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way (‘Ni-klows Wirt’), Americans invariably mangle it into ‘Nick-les Worth’. This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.”

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