On: Niklaus Wirth has died

[sedatk]

…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.