[vcf-midatlantic] Niklaus Wirth passed away

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 3:48 PM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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.