Re:Where is Prof. Nicklaus Wirth today?
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jefsumm...@aol.com (JefSummers) wrote:
>"Ing. Franz Glaser" <meg-gla...@eunet.at> writes:
>>Gary Marcus wrote:
>>> Where is Prof. Nicklaus Wirth today? (The man who invented Pascal)
>>He is still professor on the ETH in Zrich.
>>Btw.: His{*word*128}name is Niklaus, not Nicklaus.
>Wasn't he at Dartmouth when inventing Pascal? Or am I confused (I remember
>Dartmouth Basic, running on an IBM 1130 with 16K of RAM, but I guess I'm dating
>myself...).
You're confused. BASIC was created at Dartmouth in 1964 by John Kemeny and
Tom Kurtz, but Wirth was at ETH Zurich when he developed Pascal. And
Modula. And Oberon.
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>Also, looks like Modula never really made it...
On the contrary. While neither Microsoft nor Borland supplies a Modula
compiler, that is hardly the definition of "making it" for me. Modula and
Oberon have a wide following. A number of embedded systems use Modula
because of its type-safety.
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