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Niklaus Wirth , a giant of twentieth century software design, died.
Pascal grew out of a proposal to improve Algol, which was turned down by committee.
Pascal became Turbo Pascal which became Borland Delphi and drove the success of Microsoft Windows 3 .
Project Oberon is a tiny Pascal -like language, with concurrency primitives, and an IDE .
Moore's Law is over, replaced by Koomey 's law.
Computers aren't much faster now than they were a decade ago , and they will probably never again return to the rate of performance improvement they had for 60 years up to the mid-noughties.
We are getting built-in dedicated silicon for rendering 3D graphics, often disabled.
Up until about twenty years ago , computers doubled in speed that often.
Now it's a mere ten or 15 per cent.
Software is too big to understand and optimise, but it's the only model of making and selling software we have.
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