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  1. Nikolaus Wirth, the great pioneer of computer science, died on January 1, 2024. His work had a great influence on my own beginnings as a programmer. It started with PASCAL at school and compiler construction at university in the 90s. His law still seems to be working today: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_ #pascal #modula #oberon #computersience #history