Wirth on the implementation and spread of Pascal

Niklaus Wirth, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, discusses the implementation and spread of Pascal, focusing on its use of a virtual machine to improve efficiency and portability. This clip is taken from an interview conducted with Wirth by Elena Trichina for the ACM on 13 March, 2018 in Zürich, Switzerland. Video of the full interview is available as part of Wirth’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.org/award_winner....

[@ScoopexUs]

RIP hero.

[@PCGatOS]

Rest in peace, Niklaus.

[@demojoe28]

RIP Sir

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

I wrote a Pascal to P-compiler for the HP9845A in 1979.
Small, fast, efficient and crash-proof.

[@user-nk6dc2wk6p]

R.I.P my HERO 😢

[@peterkochlarsen2792]

Turbo Pascal was actually danish - and named Compas Pascal originally. Developed by Anders Hejlsberg

[@chriswatson2407]

I didn't know that. To this day I program in Pascal and the compiler is maintained by a Danish team.

[@Mark.Brindle]

Anders went on to Microsoft becoming the language architect for C#. Absolutely loved Delphi and Turbo Pascal.

[@johnl2727]

Back in the 1980's when I got my Apple II I decided to take a course in Pascal at a junior college. I had used Basic for the last five years writing scientific/mathematical programs as an engineer. I found Pascal to be a waste of time. I just continued using line numbers and merrily solving problems.

[@dioc]

Very interesting.