[dupe]<p>Not sure why the obit so late (NYT did same strangely)<p>Lots of discussion and anecdotes back when news broke at start of the year:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012</a>
Gift link: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-computer-programmers-dies-at-89-6817b134?st=xfyi7ln274yxedp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" rel="nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-compute...</a>