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Fun fact: one of Niklaus Wirth (the author of Pascal) students was Martin Odersky, who went on to create Scala.
by theboywho 3y ago
Fun fact: one of Niklaus Wirth (the author of Pascal) students was Martin Odersky, who went on to create Scala.
- justin66 3y agoRobert Griesemer, one of the creators of Go, did his PhD under Hanspeter Mössenböck and Niklaus Wirth. More relevant to the thread at hand: Martin Odersky wrote Turbo Modula-2. https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704733 (as with C# vs Scala, Hejlsberg's Turbo Pascal was faster and more popular than Odersky's Turbo Modula-2)