Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
shawnhooper@fosstodon.org ("Shawn Hooper (he/him)") wrote:
Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", and more, passed away on January 1.
Wirth's law, named after him, is an adage which states that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.