R.I.P. Niklaus Wirth

[harryp]

I got into programming when I returned from the service, and thought about going in that direction. I was the only non-programming major in the Pascal class and got the highest score. I appreciated the 'tank proof' nature of Pascal. He made a major contribution to cleaning up the mess of unstructured programming. Along the way I dabbled in Macro Assembler, Basic, C, and some C++.