"Since Jobs did not understand Raskin’s color scheme [important for using the chart easily], he had an artist alter the work [...]. Jobs then ordered Raskin’s name removed as the creator of the work and placed the artist’s name in its place."
Etliches rund um Eigentum:
➡️ Kann ich Gekauftes auch reparieren?
➡️ Kann ich Gekauftes auch behalten?
(Leider ist die Antwort darauf immer häufiger "Nein")
➡️ Funktioniert eine Linksteuer?
(Antwort ist klar; nun aber auch mit Beispielen)
5️⃣ Am 1. Januar ist Niklaus Wirth, Schweizer Informatikpionier, im Alter von 88 Jahren verstorben.
Er wurde u.a. für seine Programmiersprache #Pascal und Weiterentwicklungen sowie seinen konsequenten Minimalismus und Kritik an langsamen IT-Systemen bekannt.
The day after finishing the second programming languages history post - https://retrofun.pl/2024/01/03/70s-and-80s-forget-basic-we-had-pascal-and-c/ focusing on Pascal... I've just learn that Niklaus Wirth has died 😢
Nevertheless, please visit, share, comment - and learn about how things we have today have started.
Sad news, Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal, dies at 89. In 1979 with an Apple II+ there was Basic and then with dual 5.25 inch floppy drives (147K storage each) Pascal arrived. It was a gift to those learning computer languages. Wirth was instrumental with so many of us broadening what computers could do. It meant so much then. He is part of computer history. #pascal#wirth
Faleceu dia primeiro Nikolaus #Wirth, criador, entre outras linguagens, de #Pascal, uma das linguagens que eu gostei de usar por muitos anos, primeiro como adolescente autodidata vc (nem lembro direto o que eu fazia) e depois numa versão embutida em um software de CAD (eu criava plug-ins e "objetos paramétricos").
So Niklaus Wirth has passed away. He was, among many other things, the creator of #Pascal. (Turbo) Pascal was an incredibly important point on the path I took to becoming a software developer. Decades later, I'm not sure that I have ever had as much FUN writing software as I did back then. On days when I'm sitting here banging my head on the desk, thinking about how I miss the days when this was more 'fun' than 'work', those Pascal days are invariably what I'm missing.
#pascal#modula2#oberon#lilith Niklaus Wirth passed away on 1st Jan 2024? I learned a lot by reading his books and by using Pascal & Modula 2 on the UCSD virtual machine on the Apple ][.
#lisp#lispmachine#symbolics#genera#pascal#niklauswirth Niklaus Wirth's PASCAL made it to unusual systems: Here is a screenshot of a Lisp Machine, browsing the original Pascal User Manual and Report, but in a hypertext browser, with a PASCAL implementation loaded...
RIP Niklaus #Wirth. Wirth's #Pascal was among the first programming languages I actually enjoyed, after love-hate with #Fortran, #AssemblyLanguage and #PL1. I did loads of programming in Pascal in the 1970s and 1980s, on #DEC10s, #Vaxen and on the first IBM PCs (#TurboPascal). Then, #Modula. If you are using a #Logitech device today (I am!), that's another outcome of Wirth's vast ouvre!
Creator of various programming languages like #modula#modula2#oberon#oberon2#oberon07#pascal and more... the Oberon OS, and interesting computing hardware, such as the Lilith computer, has passed on the 1st of Jan.
He was one of the few people who actually made the full computing stack, from a language and compiler to OS, to hardware to run it on.
I'm hoping that re-imagining computing from the ground up like that, didn't just die with him.
#pascal@jns
if you'll forgive my serial errantism
and have a huge amount of spare effort you would like to expend, sometime (probably not before tomorrow)
would you like to gander at
An Interactive Programming System For Pascal by Jerker Wilander
possibly relating it to the interactive C++ programming visible in your https://toobnix.org/w/qbsgYE39mtoyCiEiSpYeJ9
game engine peertube videos?
@jns
*This article embeds #Pascal development inside the #interlisp environment for the purpose of pascal development, however note this was pascal at least before 1980. #Programming#InteractiveProgrammingEnvironments
I'm looking at this and other articles in that Interactive Programming Environments anthology I like.
@popey I also had a #C64#Commodore64#8bit computer, when I got 16, after having borrowed a #VC20 (3.5 KILObytes of RAM) for 2 or 3 months. Unfortunately, I do not have it any more, as I never had the money to buy a new computer without selling the old one ...
Is there anyone else out there who's attempting #AdventOfCode in an older language (and/or dialect) like #Pascal or #Fortran77? I see lots of people doing it using the usual suspects, but I can't believe I'm the only one enjoying it as a #RetroComputing exercise!