R.I.P. Niklaus Wirth

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(01-04-2024 05:28 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  His trademark " := " will survive him, at least as long as people write programs in Go.

The := operator was used in ALGOL before Wirth got hold of it though!

Quote:Once I had to briefly do some work using Pascal, so his ways and mine crossed for a short period.

It was used as a teaching language on Manchester's freshman CS course when I was there in the early 80s, with an emphasis on structured programming. I didn't use it again (in its Borland Object Pascal variant) until the late 90s.