On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 07:38:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I had the opportunity to meet Wirth at CERN, when he and a few
ETHZ members took part on the Oberon Day, back in 2004.
He is really great guy, but he could not understand why Oberon
was being ignored in the industry. As he expected the desire
for quality would drive developers to it.
From Wirth published books and known projects I have an
impression that he is a brilliant scientist who has an extremely
basic understanding of what engineers need. His languages are all
about proposing academical solutions to practical problems.
