sad. after learning basic on a zx81 my father found thrown out in the trashbin (i still have that machine today) my parents got me a 8088 PC. when my friends were playing games on those atari st and amiga machines, i was progrmaming in turbo pascal 3.0 i found from a cheap book that came with a 5"14 floppy. pascal is the first true language i learned and i would probably not be coding today without Niklaus. he changed my life, and he had a huge, huge impact on computing : pascal, oberon. delphi, and many more things. i will miss him dearly.
