RIP, and thanks for helping indirectly to put me on my career path. I learned pascal fairly late in the grand scheme of things (basic->6502 assembly->C and the

RIP, and thanks for helping indirectly to put me on my career path. I learned pascal fairly late in the grand scheme of things (basic->6502 assembly->C and then eventually pascal) but it was used for the vast majority of my formal CS education first by instruction, then by choice, and eventually in my first real programming job. The later pascal dialects remain IMHO far better than any other languages I write/maintain/guide others in using. Like many others of his stature it was just one of his many hits. Niklaus Wirth is one of the giants I feel the industry stands on, and I thank him for that. "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain..."