Никлаус Вирт и язык Pascal — легенды 80-х

В 1970 году молодой швейцарский учёный и программист Никлаус Вирт (Niklaus Wirth) выпустил первую версию Pascal. Прошло более полувека, автор умер в 89 лет, а вот Паскаль остаётся актуальным и популярным языком программирования.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/968706/

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several good bits here, I note this as one key for me

I know Wirth was horrified by the repulsive syntax choices of today's dominant languages; he could never accept that a = b should mean something different from b = a, or that a = a + 1 should even be considered meaningful. The folly of straying away from conventions of mathematics carefully refined over several centuries (for example by distorting "=" to mean assignment and resorting to a special symbol for equality, rather than the obviously better reverse) depressed him. I remain convinced that the community will eventually come back to its senses and start treating language design seriously again.

https://m-cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/279178-niklaus-wirth-or-the-importance-of-being-simple/fulltext

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Niklaus Wirth passed away on 2024-01-01... 😢

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

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