[cctalk] Re: RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Jan 4, 2024, at 4:32 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and
> an OS was 89
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
> 
> The great man has left us.

Great man, indeed.  I still have a soft spot for Pascal; it's one of only two 
languages where I was able to go from zero knowledge to having a fully 
functional significant program in one week.  (The other is Python.)

Pascal is still around; the GCC compiler suite has it, and Modula-2 as well.

        paul