On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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, take a look at Lazarus some time. It's pretty awesome.
g.
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