RIP: Pascal Creator Niklaus Wirth

Famous quote... when asked by English speakers how to correctly pronounce his name, he supposedly said: "You can call me by name, which is Wirt, or you can call me by value, which is Worth."

The article contradicts you: "Van Wijngaarden introduced Wirth on stage at the International Federation for Information Processing congress in 1965. He made a joke which became famous:

Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value."

More discussion and anecdotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012

I don't like Pascal. But must admit, it shaped our modern world.

As I remember, Pascal was just begin, next appeared Modula, Oberon, which was partially influence and partially just become main languages in some important niches (Modula-2/3 as I know, heavily used in military/air-space).

RIP.

Pascal programmers never die. They go procedure and don't return.

Aha. That's my obituary for the great man. Thanks for sharing it.

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