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Autor: Peter Olson
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Dla: dng, Hendrik Boom
Temat: Re: [DNG] Programming languages for netman?
> On September 12, 2015 at 10:36 PM Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
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> 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