> On September 12, 2015 at 10:36 PM Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 01:49:57AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: > > It was not Pascal the successor of Modula? > > Pascal cne after Algol W. Modula came after Pascal. Modula 2 came > after Modula. Oberon came after Modula 2. All these languages were > designed by Niklaus Wirth.
Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value. Sorry, couldn't help myself :-) Peter Olson _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
