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  • Re: Nicklaus Wirth obituaries

    From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 24 19:08:09 2024
    According to Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d>: >https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-computer-programmers-dies-at-89-6817b134

    Here's a few that aren't paywalled. He died on 1 January but for some reason most of the obits
    were just published in the last few days.

    https://hackaday.com/2024/01/05/remembering-niklaus-wirth-father-of-pascal-and-inspiration-to-many/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/niklaus-wirth-dead.html

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  • From Anton Ertl@21:1/5 to John Levine on Sat Feb 24 20:41:10 2024
    John Levine <[email protected]> writes:
    He died on 1 January

    I met him for the second time in January 2020, at an event celebrating
    the 100th birthday of Heiz Zemanek (an Austrian computer pioneer who
    died in 2014). Interestingly, Heinz Zemanek was born on 1
    January, so Wirth died on Zemanek's 104th birthday.

    So he died on the 104th birthday of Heinz Zemanek.

    https://hackaday.com/2024/01/05/remembering-niklaus-wirth-father-of-pascal-and-inspiration-to-many/

    This is a very good one.

    - anton
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  • From MitchAlsup1@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 24 20:30:09 2024
    One of the few who deserves a salute to his work.

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  • From Michael S@21:1/5 to Anton Ertl on Sat Feb 24 23:26:20 2024
    On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:41:10 GMT
    [email protected] (Anton Ertl) wrote:

    John Levine <[email protected]> writes:
    He died on 1 January

    I met him for the second time in January 2020, at an event celebrating
    the 100th birthday of Heiz Zemanek (an Austrian computer pioneer who
    died in 2014). Interestingly, Heinz Zemanek was born on 1
    January, so Wirth died on Zemanek's 104th birthday.

    So he died on the 104th birthday of Heinz Zemanek.

    https://hackaday.com/2024/01/05/remembering-niklaus-wirth-father-of-pascal-and-inspiration-to-many/


    This is a very good one.

    - anton

    Yes, a good one, but IMHO misses a key point: Nicklaus Wirth was first
    and foremost a good writer.
    It's a pity that he wrote so few books and instead spent 6th and 7th
    decades of his life, the age most suited for books writing, on
    something else.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Michael S on Sat Feb 24 23:00:39 2024
    On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:26:20 +0200, Michael S wrote:

    [Niklaus] Wirth was first and foremost a good writer.

    Maybe not in English. Remember that the Pascal spec was credited to
    “Jensen & Wirth”, and I suspect Jensen was credited first because she did
    a lot to keep it readable. I read something an article in English by
    Wirth, once, and he came across as someone not completely fluent in it.

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  • From Stephen Fuld@21:1/5 to John Levine on Sat Feb 24 22:35:53 2024
    On 2/24/2024 11:08 AM, John Levine wrote:
    According to Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d>:
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-computer-programmers-dies-at-89-6817b134

    Here's a few that aren't paywalled.

    I apologize for that. The story came up on my Apple News feed, and
    apparently, even though I don't have a subscription to the Wall Street
    Journal, if I access it through the Apple news link, it bypasses the
    paywall.

    Just to satisfy my curiosity, here is the actual Apple News link.

    https://apple.news/AJGmPl3VwSOuLTqIp70oaYA

    Will someone else, please try it and let me know if it allows access or not?

    Thanks.


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  • From George Musk@21:1/5 to John Levine on Sun Feb 25 11:05:20 2024
    On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:08:09 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

    According to Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d>:
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-computer- programmers-dies-at-89-6817b134

    Here's a few that aren't paywalled. He died on 1 January but for some
    reason most of the obits were just published in the last few days.

    https://hackaday.com/2024/01/05/remembering-niklaus-wirth-father-of-
    pascal-and-inspiration-to-many/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/niklaus-wirth-dead.html

    Also
    https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/

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  • From Michael S@21:1/5 to Stephen Fuld on Sun Feb 25 12:44:32 2024
    On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:35:53 -0800
    Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 2/24/2024 11:08 AM, John Levine wrote:
    According to Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d>:
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-computer-programmers-dies-at-89-6817b134


    Here's a few that aren't paywalled.

    I apologize for that. The story came up on my Apple News feed, and apparently, even though I don't have a subscription to the Wall
    Street Journal, if I access it through the Apple news link, it
    bypasses the paywall.

    Just to satisfy my curiosity, here is the actual Apple News link.

    https://apple.news/AJGmPl3VwSOuLTqIp70oaYA

    Will someone else, please try it and let me know if it allows access
    or not?

    Thanks.



    Yes, I can read it.
    I don't know if it is related to Apple News link or to the fact that it
    is the first WSJ article I am attempting to read this week and only 2nd
    or 3rd that I am trying to read this month.

    BTW, I think that the article is good.

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  • From Stephen Fuld@21:1/5 to Michael S on Sun Feb 25 08:09:32 2024
    On 2/25/2024 2:44 AM, Michael S wrote:
    On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:35:53 -0800
    Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 2/24/2024 11:08 AM, John Levine wrote:
    According to Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d>:
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/niklaus-wirth-computer-programmers-dies-at-89-6817b134


    Here's a few that aren't paywalled.

    I apologize for that. The story came up on my Apple News feed, and
    apparently, even though I don't have a subscription to the Wall
    Street Journal, if I access it through the Apple news link, it
    bypasses the paywall.

    Just to satisfy my curiosity, here is the actual Apple News link.

    https://apple.news/AJGmPl3VwSOuLTqIp70oaYA

    Will someone else, please try it and let me know if it allows access
    or not?

    Thanks.



    Yes, I can read it.
    I don't know if it is related to Apple News link or to the fact that it
    is the first WSJ article I am attempting to read this week and only 2nd
    or 3rd that I am trying to read this month.

    BTW, I think that the article is good.

    Thank you Michael. And I agree with your assessment of the article.


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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 25 19:20:53 2024
    According to Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d>:
    Just to satisfy my curiosity, here is the actual Apple News link.

    https://apple.news/AJGmPl3VwSOuLTqIp70oaYA

    Will someone else, please try it and let me know if it allows access or not?

    I get a page that offers to unlock the article with a trial Apple News subscription.

    The WSJ is quite thoroughly paywalled, very few free articles.

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  • From Stephen Fuld@21:1/5 to John Levine on Sun Feb 25 14:14:37 2024
    On 2/25/2024 11:20 AM, John Levine wrote:
    According to Stephen Fuld <[email protected]d>:
    Just to satisfy my curiosity, here is the actual Apple News link.

    https://apple.news/AJGmPl3VwSOuLTqIp70oaYA

    Will someone else, please try it and let me know if it allows access or not?

    I get a page that offers to unlock the article with a trial Apple News subscription.

    The WSJ is quite thoroughly paywalled, very few free articles.

    I guess that Apple has some kind of deal with WSJ. Fine, but the
    interesting part is that I read the article on my iPad (reasonable),
    then e-mailed it (using inbuilt iPad mail, to myself. I then opened the
    e-mail on my Windows desktop PC, from where I pasted the URL into the
    posting. When I clicked the link on my PC, it brought up the full
    article. So Apple knew that, despite it being a PC, that it was somehow
    the Apple News subscription from my iPad and bypassed the paywall and
    the ad for Apple News.


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  • From Andy Valencia@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sun Mar 3 06:43:03 2024
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> writes:
    Maybe not in English. Remember that the Pascal spec was credited to
    "Jensen & Wirth", and I suspect Jensen was credited first because she did
    a lot to keep it readable.

    Whatever happened to Ms. Jensen? I can't find any work from her aside from
    the famous report on Pascal. There were rumors at my old university (UC
    Santa Cruz) that she'd been a student there once.

    Andy Valencia
    Home page: https://www.vsta.org/andy/
    To contact me: https://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html

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