Many thanks Liam. N. Wirth, the man and his creation(s), has a special place in my understanding of computers and how programming works - the way it should. Great men do change things and in N. Wirth's case much for the better in the computing world and dare I say beyond.
Murray 🙂 On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 5:38 PM Rob Jarratt via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Sad news but a great article Liam, thanks for the interesting history. > > The second language I taught myself was Algol 68 (!), on a DECSYSTEM20. I > learned Pascal at University, when I did my M.Sc I used VAX Pascal on a VAX > 11/780 and went on to use it as my first professional language. I loved VAX > Pascal, I could do just about anything I wanted with it. Of course, it > wasn't very "pure" Pascal. > > Incidentally, I have asked a couple of times before, but if anyone knows > of any media with Algol68C for PDP10 I would love to get hold of it. > > Regards > > Rob > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > Sent: 04 January 2024 21:32 > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > Cc: Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [cctalk] RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator > Niklaus Wirth > > > > 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. I wrote an obituary. > > > > -- > > Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com > > Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven > > IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ > > WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 > >
