On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 13:59:38 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
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.
There is this conflict between textbooks and real world (hardware
/ software interaction). Walter once said on this forum that when
he sees textbook examples, he says that things don't really work
that way. Through D, I've learned a lot about that, because the
language was designed on hindsight and with the machine in mind.
