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  • Niklaus Wirth [was Re: How to make sure a new language is 'complete']

    From Andy Walker@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 6 00:06:08 2024
    On 09/12/2023 17:41, I wrote:
    On 09/12/2023 13:51, James Harris wrote:
    [...] It's a pity there aren't thinkers of [Hoare's] type
    still around - at least I don't know of any.
        Tony Hoare is still around.  So are, for example, Don Knuth, Niklaus Wirth, [...].

    Sadly, Niklaus Wirth died on Monday, January 1st, aged 89.
    Biography at, eg, "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth".

    RIP.

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