RIP: Pascal Creator Niklaus Wirth

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."

More discussion and anecdotes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38858012">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38858012</a>

I don&#x27;t like Pascal. But must admit, it shaped our modern world.<p>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&#x2F;3 as I know, heavily used in military&#x2F;air-space).<p>RIP.

Pascal programmers never die. They go procedure and don&#x27;t return.

Aha. That&#x27;s my obituary for the great man. Thanks for sharing it.

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