Niklaus Wirth, software developer who saw power in simplicity, dies at 89

[karaokeyoga]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/28/niklaus-wirth-pascal-software-dies/

[macintux]

A few of the heavier discussions from 2 months ago, when he passed away:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012 (403 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871086 (61 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994457 (61 comments)

No shortage of other discussions as well since then:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[ChrisArchitect]

Another weirdly late obit

THE discussion and anecdotes on this from when it was news at the start of the year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012

[subharmonicon]

Previous thread from early January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858012

[airstrike]

    WriteLn('RIP');

[alyandon → airstrike]

:-/ Pascal was the first structured programming language I taught myself as a child.