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

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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 Wirth
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/index.html Book on Compiler Construction
http://pascal.hansotten.com/ucsd-p-system/more-on-p-code/ p-code machines
http://pascal.hansotten.com/standard-pascal-and-validation/ Standard Pascal
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi Delphi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal UCSD Pascal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3DMUn6cck Kathleen Jenssen (co-author of the Pascal book) at the 80th birthday reception for N Wirth
https://www.fidonet.org Fidonet bulletin board
http://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

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1. [EN] Pascal or the art of keeping things simple - in Memoriam of Niklaus Wirth (00:00:00)

2. Pascal User Manual - Irving Reid (00:04:11)

3. Pascal Evolution - Todd Jacobs (00:13:43)

4. Pascal Influence - Charles Forsythe (00:22:36)

5. Pascal - final thoughts (00:34:01)

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