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Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89

• airstrike 3y ago
  WriteLn('RIP');
  • alyandon 3y ago
    :-/ Pascal was the first structured programming language I taught myself as a child.
• subharmonicon 3y ago
  Previous thread from early January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012
• macintux 3y ago
  A few of the heavier discussions from 2 months ago, when he passed away: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012 (403 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871086 (61 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994457 (61 comments) No shortage of other discussions as well since then: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=wirth&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
• ChrisArchitect 3y ago
  Another weirdly late obit THE discussion and anecdotes on this from when it was news at the start of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012