[wozer]

No better source yet, I think.

But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

[johndoe0815]

Niklaus Wirth's death was also announced (by Andreas Pirklbauer) an hour ago on the Oberon mailing list:

https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html

[kragen]

thank you

dang, maybe we can change the url to this instead? this url has been stable for at least 14 years (http://web.archive.org/web/20070720035132/https://lists.inf....) and has a good chance of remaining stable for another 14, while the twitter url is likely to disappear this year or show different results to different people

[kragen]

yeah, and i hope meyer would know

but still, it's twitter, liable to vanish or block non-logged-in access at any moment

[PaulHoule]

Since Twitter is suppressing the visibility of tweets that link outside their site I think it would be perfectly fair to block links to twitter, rewrite them to nitter, etc. There also ought to be gentle pressure on people who post to Twitter to move to some other site. I mean, even I've got a Bluesky invite now.