News Dr Wirth inventor of pascal has died at 89

[jedishrfu]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/technology/niklaus-wirth-dead.html

and in case the NY Times gives you some trouble:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/

 

[DrClaude]

Pascal is the second language I learned. It helped me a lot in learning how to structure programs.

 

[jtbell]

Pascal is the second language I learned.

Me too. Fortran was my first, first IV, then 77, where I got into "structured programming" using IF / END IF statements and DO / END DO loops that eliminated the need for statement numbers.

So the new stuff for me in Pascal was pass-by-value versus pass-by-reference in functions, structured data types, user-defined data types, etc.

I taught intro programming courses in Pascal during the early/mid 1990s, then switched to C++ until I stopped teaching those courses in the early 2000s.

Dr. Wirth is reported to have once said, "You can call me by name, which is 'Wirth' [pronounced 'veert'], or you can call me by value, which is "Worth".

 

[Borek]

Similar here, BASIC and FORTRAN despite being completely different were both poor in terms of teaching good coding/programming habits, most of what I know (I am not saying my habits are OK ) I learned while using Pascal.