Father of the Wirth family of languages, most famously Pascal, Niklaus Wirth would have been 90 years old in a few weeks. He passed away three days ago.

Apart from programming languages, both his own and collaboration and standardization with others, he also contributed to our body of knowledge in algorithms, methodology, user interfaces and OSes, much of which still hasn't seen its full potential. He will influence the field for decades to come.

Thank you for your work, Wirth. Pascal was the second programming language I learned and it influenced me greatly in my early years. I have yet to check out your later work, but it's been on my list for a long time.

Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth

I heard about it /via https://fosstodon.org/@shawnhooper/111693702819583071 @Shawn Hooper (he/him)