Late but RIP Niklaus Wirth

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Agreed. My CS Honours project (back in 1989) was on the design and implementation of an optimising computer of a Modula-2 like language. Meanwhile, my friends and I built an ARM-based computer and wrote the operating system from scratch in that compiler. Imagine building a custom computer and writing the entire OS from scratch - those were simpler times indeed!

I also spent the first half of my career writing in various forms of Pascal.

RIP Niklaus Wirth.

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My path, too was BASIC —> Pascal. BASIC was at computer camp in the late '70s (on Apple Its, no less) and I taught myself some Pascal decades later, running it on a mainframe and later Turbo Pascal on my Mac. I had dabbled with other languages, but I really grokked Pascal.

Thanks for sharing, @OogieM!

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I preferred JPI’s TopSpeed Modula-2 vs Turbo Pascal on the day. Coroutines seemed like magic.