<story><title>Some memories of Niklaus Wirth</title><url>https://odersky.github.io/blog/2024-01-04-post.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mjburgess</author><text>I remember having just left a scala event I was running in a cab, and seeing Martin on a london bridge with a gaggle of guys following him. I wasnt aware he was the student of Nikalus Wirth -- but it makes a lot of sense.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a shame though, that Wirth&amp;#x27;s philosophy was, imv, ditched from 90s-00s (where we get: python, js, ruby, ...scala).&lt;p&gt;It seems now language design is rediscovering Wirth and his techniques (see, eg., google&amp;#x27;s carbon which iirc, seeks to be ast-free single-pass).</text></comment>
<story><title>Some memories of Niklaus Wirth</title><url>https://odersky.github.io/blog/2024-01-04-post.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>santiagobasulto</author><text>For the unaware: Odersky himself is a “modern day Wirth”. Amazing language designer. He’s responsible for generics in Java and the Scala language.</text></comment>