Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : tenser
From : Avon
Date : Fri Jan 05 2024 11:11:25

On 04 Jan 2024 at 09:42a, tenser pondered and said...
 
 te> RIP Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024.
 te> 
 te> Wirth was the inventor of the Algol/W, Pascal, Modula-2, and
 te> Oberon programming languages, the Oberon operating system,
 te> the Lilith workstation, and so much more.  It is impossible
 te> to overstate his importance to modern computing.
 te> 
 te> We have lost a giant.

:(  RIP Indeed....  sad news..

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
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