On: Niklaus Wirth has died

[skrebbel]

I still wonder what the tech world would’ve been like today if Wirth had had the marketing sense to call Modula “Pascal 2”

[sedatk → skrebbel]

…also if he hadn’t insisted on uppercase keywords.

[pjmlp → sedatk]

That wasn't the issue many make it up to be, thanks to programmer editors.

We already had autoformatting tools in the early 1990's, Go did not invent them.

[sedatk → pjmlp]

But we also had syntax highlighting in the early 90's, so, using uppercase to denote language elements was already an archaic approach that hurt readability.