3 Jan
2024
3 Jan
'24
4:28 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 3:48 PM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
We lost a titan of programming languages, programming methodology, software engineering and hardware design. Niklaus Wirth passed away on the first of January. We mourn a pioneer, colleague, mentor and friend.
https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347
So sad to hear that. I had hoped to meet him someday and had him on my wish list to invite to East, but since he is international it was more difficult. I appreciate him for creating Pascal. That was my second computer language that I learned after BASIC.