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In Europe, the surname of Niklaus Wirth (inventor of the Pascal programming language) is pronounced “veert”; in the United States, it’s pronounced “worth.“ Thu
by jdeisenberg 6y ago
In Europe, the surname of Niklaus Wirth (inventor of the Pascal programming language) is pronounced “veert”; in the United States, it’s pronounced “worth.“
Thus, in Europe, he’s called by name; in the US he’s called by value.
- wnoise 6y agoThe meaner version explicitly says Niklaus, and Nickle's as well.
- andrewaylett 6y agoThis was the original: Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value. - Introduction by Adriaan van Wijngaarden at the IFIP Congress (1965). (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth)