Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Bob Worm
Date : Thu Jan 04 2024 23:06:50

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to tenser on Thu Jan 04 2024 06:35:00

 >  te> RIP Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024.

 > Anyone who studied CS in the 90s on probably started off with Pascal -
 > not sure about nowadays.

Certainly accurate in my case, at the very end of the 90s. I loved Pascal back then and really couldn't see why people preferred C. I think I switched to C when I started using Linux - GCC was a lot easier to lay my hands on than... whatever the good Pascal compiler was!

I am sure the very first demo coding tutorial I ever saw was in Pascal as well - I would love to lay my hands on that again.

BobW
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