On: Niklaus Wirth has died

[gjvc]

> ... his 80th birthday symposium at ETH where he showed off his new port of Oberon to a homebrew CPU running on a random FPGA dev board with USB peripherals.

This was a fantastic talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXY78gPMvl0

[lynguist → gjvc]

Thank you for sharing. I was there and didn’t expect to see this again. :)

He had the crowd laughing and cheering, and the audience questions in the end were absolutely excellent.

[gjvc → lynguist]

Always glad to be of service.

I think I last watched it during the pandemic and was inspired to pick up reading more about Oberon. A demonstration / talk like that is so much better when the audience are rooting for the presenter to do well.