[EN] Pascal or the art of keeping things simple - in Memoriam of Niklaus Wirth

English edition [EN]: Niklaus Wirth is one of the computing pioneers and his work inspired many other technologies and a generation of engineers. In this episode I discuss one of his many contributions: the programming language Pascal. And we hear from 3 people who worked and learnt with Pascal in their career: Irving Reid, Todd Jacobs and Charles Forsythe.Links:https://computerhistory.org/profile/niklaus-wirth/https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/wirth_1025774.cfm Turing Award for N Wirthhttps://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/index.html Book on Compiler Constructionhttp://pascal.hansotten.com/ucsd-p-system/more-on-p-code/ p-code machineshttp://pascal.hansotten.com/standard-pascal-and-validation/ Standard Pascalhttps://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi Delphihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal UCSD Pascalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3DMUn6cck Kathleen Jenssen (co-author of the Pascal book) at the 80th birthday reception for N Wirthhttps://www.fidonet.org Fidonet bulletin boardhttp://www.retroarchive.org/swag/index.html Software Archiving group (Pascal)Not everyone was enamoured with Pascal. Here is a link to B Kernighan's post on 'Pascal...is a toy language' http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/bwk-on-pascal.html Get in touchThank you for listening! Merci de votre écoute! Vielen Dank für´s Zuhören! Contact Details/ Coordonnées / Kontakt: Email mailto:[email protected] UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/code4thought.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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