[HN Gopher] RIP: Pascal Creator Niklaus Wirth
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       RIP: Pascal Creator Niklaus Wirth
        
       Author : indus
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2024-01-04 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | lproven wrote:
       | Aha. That's my obituary for the great man. Thanks for sharing it.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | More discussion and anecdotes:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012
        
       | simne wrote:
       | I don't like Pascal. But must admit, it shaped our modern world.
       | 
       | As I remember, Pascal was just begin, next appeared Modula,
       | Oberon, which was partially influence and partially just become
       | main languages in some important niches (Modula-2/3 as I know,
       | heavily used in military/air-space).
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       | RIP.
        
       | jbotz wrote:
       | Famous quote... when asked by English speakers how to correctly
       | pronounce his name, he supposedly said: "You can call me by name,
       | which is Wirt, or you can call me by value, which is Worth."
        
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