<story><title>Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/279178-niklaus-wirth-or-the-importance-of-being-simple/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Agraillo</author><text>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&amp;#x27;s decision to buy Compass Pascal might be influenced by his Kahn&amp;#x27;s early impressions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;[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.&lt;p&gt;[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&amp;#x27;ll go to the Pascal class.&lt;p&gt;[00:07:59] And that&amp;#x27;s how I met Professor Wirth. And that was great. That was my favorite class from that moment because he&amp;#x27;s such a, such an enlightened person and a clear thinker that it was a great, great experience for me.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ethz.ch&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-and-events&amp;#x2F;eth-news&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;we-are-eth-podcast-philippe-kahn.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ethz.ch&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;news-and-events&amp;#x2F;eth-news&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;we-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple</title><url>https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/279178-niklaus-wirth-or-the-importance-of-being-simple/fulltext</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dang</author><text>Recent and related:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Closing word at Zürich Colloquium (1968)&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=38883652&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=38883652&lt;/a&gt; - Jan 2024 (28 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024: Geek For Life&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=38871086&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=38871086&lt;/a&gt; - Jan 2024 (61 comments)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Niklaus Wirth has died&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=38858012&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=38858012&lt;/a&gt; - Jan 2024 (403 comments)</text></comment>