[J3] Niklaus Wirth

[David Muxworthy]

On 5 Jan 2024, Van wrote:

> Niklaus Wirth passed away, six weeks short of his 90th birthday. ... Completely unpretentious. 

But not above, in a lecture in Edinburgh on the evolution of programming languages, mainly to an audience of computer science undergrads and postgrads, making snide remarks about Fortran every 15 minutes or so, causing sniggers all round the hall each time.

David Muxworthy