[ProtectOurFreedom]

I'm sure many FReepers remember Dr. Wirth and his great contributions to computer science. I first learned Oject Oriented Programming using Pascal on (I think) my original Macintosh or my Mac SE back in the mid 80s.

Not only the great musicians of our youth passing, so are the great scientists.

RIP Dr. Wirth. You made great contributions!

I worked at a company next door to Xerox PARC in Palo Alto where Dr. Wirth worked for a while. I was next to some greatness there and didn't even know it at the time!

Here's a Web Archive / Wayback Machine Link.

[No name given]

Rest In Peace, Niklaus.

[Paladin2]

Gate$ was not so much a coder as a usurper of the code of others.

[Delphster]

Think of him quite frequently on my job as I program in Delphi -- Object Oriented Pascal. RIP Dr. Wirth. You made great contributions! Ditto!

[SpaceBar]

Pascal was probably many peoples’ first look at pre-OOP ‘structured’ programming, not the monolithic collection of subroutines that fortran was known for at the time, and BASIC was well... just too basic.

[cockroach_magoo]

A brilliant man who accomplished a lot during a long life.

You could say he got his Nicklas Wirth.

[Bobalu]

[NorthMountain]

Q: Professor Wirth, how do you pronounce your name?

A: Well, you can address me either by name or by value ...

[NWFree]

My favorite programming language

[CapandBall]

Pascal is a learning language, and truly beautiful. As a computer science student at university in the early 80’s, Pascal was the first language I was taught, followed by C.

Professionally I used C, then Perl over the next 30 years.

writeln (‘RIP Dr. Wirth’);

[dfwgator]

A big name in Computing. RIP.