> On September 12, 2015 at 10:36 PM Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 01:49:57AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> > It was not Pascal the successor of Modula?
>
> Pascal cne after Algol W. Modula came after Pascal. Modula 2 came
> after Modula. Oberon came after Modula 2. All these languages were
> designed by Niklaus Wirth.

Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly
(Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is
to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.

Sorry, couldn't help myself :-)

Peter Olson