Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89 25/02/2024 by Hans Pronk Found on the internet today: Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89 : Pascal, the programming language he created in the early days of personal computing, offered a simpler alternative to other languages in use at the time.
Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers 30/12/2023 by Hans Pronk Found on the internet today: Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers : A buggy patch posted to the linux-kernel mailing list in early April was apparently the last straw for Greg Kroah-Hartman as it led to the planned reversion of a whole slew of commits with one thing in common: their origin at the University of Minnesota (UMN). The patch to the NFSv4 authorization mechanism was duly questioned by two NFS developers, but it is not an honest mistake; according to Kroah-Hartman, there has been an attack of sorts underway as part of some academic research at the university. In order to be sure that these intentional bugs, many with security implications, do not continue to haunt Linux, he is working on reverting commits that came from email addresses with the umn.edu domain.