I first encountered Professor Wirth remotely in my first college programming course, 203 Intro to Programming. We used Pascal as our programming language. I had been programming for 6 years by then, completely by the seat of my pants, in BASIC, FORTRAN, & 6800 assembly language.Pascal came as a shock. There were lots of things I couldn’t do in Pascal. There was a way to express a program & you’d better get used to it. So I did.We soon got our first Unix machine, a VAX 780. I moved on to C, then ...