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dubst3pp4
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Happy birthday Niklaus Wirth - inventor of the Pascal and Oberon languages
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Niklaus Wirth turns 85 today - Happy Birthday
(article in German):
https://www.heise.de/developer/meldung/Niklaus-Wirth-ein-Pionier-der-Informatik-wird-85-4308817.html
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Alles gute zum Geburtstag!
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Niklaus Wirth is one of the big geniuses of computer science. I enjoyed reading several books written by him. The Encyclopaedia Britannica has a short but interesting vignette of his life:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niklaus-Emil-Wirth
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Hey, you forgot Modula, the successor of Pascal and predecessor of Oberon.
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Quote from: lucamar on February 17, 2019, 07:19:33 pm
Hey, you forgot Modula, the successor of Pascal and predecessor of Oberon.
You are right, Modula II is also an important (and elegant) Pascal-like language. Wirth was also deeply involved in the early development of Object Pascal at Apple, later referred to as Mac Pascal, which laid the foundation for modern Object Pascal dialects (see e.g.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Mac_Pascal
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