Robert 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 wrot

Robert 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)