{"id":12412,"date":"2024-01-10T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12412"},"modified":"2024-01-10T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T03:31:08","slug":"niklaus-wirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12412","title":{"rendered":"Niklaus Wirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the first few lines of a program I wrote over 40 years ago, an early attempt to model a massively parallel processor architecture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12413\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mpc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mpc.png 737w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mpc-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, the program is nothing special. And there are much better ways to create practical multiprocessor\/multicore systems. The reason why I copy-pasted this image here has to do with something else: the fact that it was written in the Pascal programming language.<\/p>\n<p>Pascal was just one of the many creations of one of the giants of computer science, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niklaus_Wirth\">Niklaus Wirth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I learned yesterday that Wirth, who was born back in 1934, passed away on January 1.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12412' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the first few lines of a program I wrote over 40 years ago, an early attempt to model a massively parallel processor architecture. No, the program is nothing special. And there are much better ways to create practical multiprocessor\/multicore systems. The reason why I copy-pasted this image here has to do with something <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12412' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-36-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12414,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}