> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Koning
> Sent: 05 January 2024 00:34
> To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Cc: Robert Jarratt
> Subject: Re: [cctalk] RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator
Niklaus
> Wirth
>
>
>
> > On Jan 4, 2024, at 5:38 PM, Rob Jarratt via
I worked on the UCSD Pascal project which started from the P2 compiler that
Wirth created for the CDC computer. I loved working on the project and even
more learning so much about compilers, linkers, OS design and how to make it
all work really well and pretty darn fast for a PDP-11/02 with 64K
Pascal did not have strings originally, but it is a common
"enhancement". I recall 40 years ago setting out to write a program to
create a data file using the S/370 ANSI Pascal compiler and it did not
have strings.
Paul.
On 2024-01-04 8:51 p.m., Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
Pascal has
On 1/4/24 15:49, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 4, 2024, at 4:32 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and
an OS was 89
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
The great man has left us.
Great
Pascal has strings.
Sellam
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM Warner Losh via cctalk
wrote:
> My first two pascal programs of any size were an Alarm Clock for my DEC
> Rainbow and a PDP-11 simulator, also for my DEC Rainbow (I did a science
> fair project comparing stack machines to traditional
Many thanks Liam. N. Wirth, the man and his creation(s), has a special
place in my understanding of computers and how programming works - the way
it should. Great men do change things and in N. Wirth's case much for the
better in the computing world and dare I say beyond.
Murray
On Thu, Jan
> On Jan 4, 2024, at 5:38 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Sad news but a great article Liam, thanks for the interesting history.
>
> The second language I taught myself was Algol 68 (!), on a DECSYSTEM20. I
> learned Pascal at University, when I did my M.Sc I used VAX Pascal on a
My first two pascal programs of any size were an Alarm Clock for my DEC
Rainbow and a PDP-11 simulator, also for my DEC Rainbow (I did a science
fair project comparing stack machines to traditional ones, but invented my
own stack machine and was too young to know the right way to
compare/contrast
Nice obituary.
I'll have to admit I learned a lot about the man reading it.
Sellam
On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 1:32 PM Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
> Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and
> an OS was 89
>
>
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 4, 2024, at 4:32 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and
an OS was 89
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
The great man has left us.
Sad news but a great article Liam, thanks for the interesting history.
The second language I taught myself was Algol 68 (!), on a DECSYSTEM20. I
learned Pascal at University, when I did my M.Sc I used VAX Pascal on a VAX
11/780 and went on to use it as my first professional language. I loved
> On Jan 4, 2024, at 4:32 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and
> an OS was 89
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
>
> The great man has left us.
Great man, indeed. I still have a soft
Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and
an OS was 89
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/
The great man has left us. I wrote an obituary.
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