[COFF] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth!
Donald ODona
mutiny.mutiny at india.com
Fri Feb 15 19:17:49 AEST 2019
Pascal was his creation.
At 15 Feb 2019 06:09:01 +0000 (+00:00) from Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>:
> Almost forgot...
>
> Born on this day in 1934, he pretty much invented ALGOL (and algorithmic
> languages in general; the running joke was that you could call him by
> name or by value)... From Clem Cole: "The actual joke was Europeans
> called him by name ("ni-klaus vurt") and Americans by value ("nickel-less
> worth").
>
> -- Dave
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