Niklaus Wirth, Who Inspired a Generation of Computer Programmers, Dies at 89

[dupe]

Not sure why the obit so late (NYT did same strangely)

Lots of discussion and anecdotes back when news broke at start of the year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012

The article and HN title should have been titled "A Remembrance of Niklaus Wirth, Who Inspired a Generation of Computer Programmers". It is not really a dupe with that in mind. Interesting piece.

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-compute...

Very good article that has a few interesting anecdotes about his life.