Subj : RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Tenser
From : Abbub
Date : Wed Jan 03 2024 05:38 pm

*** Quoting Tenser to All dated 01-04-24 ***
> the Lilith workstation, and so much more.  It is impossible
> to overstate his importance to modern computing.

....and his importance to BBSing, indirectly. A *large* portion of BBSing (at least on the PC) was built on Pascal (specifically Turbo Pascal) from the mid-eighties through the early 90s. I've probably had more fun hacking on Pascal code back in the day than any other software development I've done before or since. (And I say this as someone who has been doing software development for decades.)

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