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Nicolas Wirth[1]
-Software engineer. Inventor of the ProgrammingLanguages Algol-W, [Pascal], [Modula2] and Oberon. Pascal and Modula2 are the most influental. Modula2 and Oberon were SystemsProgrammingLanguages
he used to create OperatingSystems.
+Software engineer. Inventor of the ProgrammingLanguages Algol-W, [Pascal], [Modula2] and [
Oberon]
. Pascal and Modula2 are the most influental. Modula2 and Oberon were [SystemsProgrammingLanguage]s
he used to create OperatingSystems.
-He favours simpicity
in programming language design[2], perhaps just a little too much for [some programmers' comfort |http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/notpascal.html]. It's said that [Modula2] would be everyone's favorite programming language if it only had one more feature, but no one agrees on what that feature should be.
+He favours simplicity
in programming language design[2], perhaps just a little too much for [some programmers' comfort|http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/notpascal.html]. It's said that [Modula2] would be everyone's favorite programming language if it only had one more feature, but no one agrees on what that feature should be.
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-[1] Pronounced "Virt". There's a little joke about that, but I'm not geeky enough to want to tell you it.%%%
-''I am: Europeans call him by name, while American's call him by Value''
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+[1] Pronounced "Virt". There's a little joke about that, but I'm not geeky enough to want to tell you it.
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+''I am: Europeans call him by name, while American's call him by Value --PerryLorier
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[2] though not to the extreme that ChuckMoore does
