[J3] Niklaus Wirth

[ian.chivers at chiversandbryan.co.uk]

Hi Van and David

The first question is for David what was the date
Of the talk?

I worked at Imperial College Computer Centre
And ended up supporting Modula 2 on the CDC systems
At the request of the Computer Science department.

Curiously its main use was by Elec Eng MSc students
Doing hardware projects.

It could cross compile for a wide range of hardware
Including 16 and 32  bit processors.

The EE students had the option of projects using the Motorola
68000 processors.

I remember helping some of them out.

Cheers

Ian Chivers

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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