[Oberon] Numerical CASE Statements in Project Oberon

[Douglas G. Danforth]

I first met Niklaus Wirth when he team taught a course in Algol-60 at 
Stanford
in 1965 (yup, way back then).  That was my first computer science course.
-Doug Danforth


On 1/11/2016 2:21 AM, Bob Walkden wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2016, at 09:54, Lars O <noreply at z505.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Or how about communication? i.e. why doesn't Wirth participate in
>> developer discussions regarding languages? I think we are stuck in the
>> 1970's where one programmer writes a compiler and has zero feedback from
>> its users, because the God programmers knows better than all his users.
>> This is one area where languages like GoLang are better off - their lead
>> developers actually participate in discussions, criticisms, ... they
>> actually COMMUNICATE with each other. Wow. They communicate, like people.
>> Is wirth an alien?
>>
> He's a teacher, and obviously a good one. That is one of the most effective forms of communication. Almost all of his work seems to have been done in collaboration with others.
>
> I was never his student, but his books are among the best computer science writing that I know of, and have been immeasurably useful in my own computing education. The clarity of his writing is quite extraordinary by any standards; more so when compared with most CS literature.
>
> He is one of the very best communicators I know of.
>
> B
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