Today in 1934 is the birthday of Niklaus E. Wirth, creator of the Pascal programming language, which real programmer�s don�t use.
Here are some hello world programmers in a few of the computer languages created by Wirth:
Pascal
{Hello World in Pascal}
program HelloWorld(output);
begin
� WriteLn('Hello World!');
end.
Oberon
(* Hello World in Oberon for standard operating systems *)
MODULE HelloWorld;
IMPORT Out;
BEGIN
� Out.String("Hello World!");
� Out.Ln;
END HelloWorld;
Algol-60
'BEGIN'
�� 'COMMENT' Hello World in Algol 60;
��� OUTPUT(4,'(''('Hello World!')',/')')
'END'
Modula-2
(* Hello World in Modula-2 *)
MODULE HelloWorld;
FROM InOut IMPORT WriteString,WriteLn;
BEGIN
� WriteString("Hello World!");
� WriteLn;
END HelloWorld.
Nicklaus Quote: "Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Ni-klows Wirt'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nick-les Worth'. This is to say that Europeans call by name, but Americans call me by value."
�� 1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
�� 1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
2005 - YouTube, a popular video-sharing website, is established.
Niklaus E. Wirth, 1934.
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