<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Sorry to hear. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I knew him, I flew us across the US in a small single engine airplane, a rare blessing in a blessed life. We share the month of February as a birth date and would exchange emails every year. (Thompson is another in the February club.) <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis once said that if you look at C and Pascal you might think there was information exchange, even though there was none. Oberon is Pascal++, ++.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Over the years C got more type-safe and Klaus' language got more flexible. Most of the objections to Pascal were gone after he designed Oberon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Very sad.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brantley </div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 3, 2024, at 2:35 PM, Dan Cross <<a href="mailto:crossd@gmail.com" class="">crossd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">[TUHS as Bcc]<br class=""><br class="">I just saw sad news from Bertrand Meyer. Apparently, Niklaus Wirth<br class="">passed away on the 1st. :-(<br class=""><br class="">I think it's fair to say that it is nearly impossible to overstate his<br class="">influence on modern programming.<br class=""><br class=""> - Dan C.<br class=""></blockquote><img apple-inline="yes" id="7489B446-DE9D-4991-9499-F3EA07C5F4FF" src="cid:DFE40663-CFE4-49D5-ADB1-82A4FB7F5F9E" class=""></div></div></body></html>