The article mentioned Philippe Kahn (Borland co-founder) as the student of Wirth, never heard the fact before. The podcast [1] confirms this. Probably the Borla

The article mentioned Philippe Kahn (Borland co-founder) as the student of Wirth, never heard the fact before. The podcast [1] confirms this. Probably the Borland's decision to buy Compass Pascal might be influenced by his Kahn's early impressions. [00:07:12] ... I remember you had a choice between two programming language and on one side they taught Fortran and Fortran is the language of science, or it was the language of scientists. [00:07:40] And then there was this new class that was started by this Professor Niklaus Wirth about Pascal. And it was, I think the first or second year it was taught. There were a lot of people in the Fortran class and not that many people in the Pascal class. So I said, oh, I'll go to the Pascal class. [00:07:59] And that's how I met Professor Wirth. And that was great. That was my favorite class from that moment because he's such a, such an enlightened person and a clear thinker that it was a great, great experience for me. [1] https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2022/05/we-are-eth-podcast-philippe-kahn.html https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2022/05/we-...