Niklaus Wirth Birthday Symposium

[phitsc]

Niklaus Wirth turned 80 this last February. ETH Zürich organised a Niklaus Wirth Birthday Symposium to celebrate this. All the talks are available online if anyone's interested. I have to admit that I only skimmed over some of them so I can't say much about how interesting they really are. I watched Wirth's own talk though where he talks about his past career mainly, which really is a look back into the history of personal computing (well, a tiny part of it anyway).

[40hz]

Good Saint Nick!

He brought us Pascal!  Modula!  And Oberon! 

Thx for the link. Gonna have to check it out.

[ewemoa]

He was apparently a Ph.D. advisor (?) for Martin Odersky the creator of the Scala programming language too!

So in the end, I gave up on the idea of joining Borland to write compilers, and went on instead to do a Ph.D with Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of Pascal and Modula-2, at ETH Zurich.

via "The Origins of Scala"