[theboywho]

Fun fact: one of Niklaus Wirth (the author of Pascal) students was Martin Odersky, who went on to create Scala.

[justin66]

Robert Griesemer, one of the creators of Go, did his PhD under Hanspeter Mössenböck and Niklaus Wirth.

More relevant to the thread at hand: Martin Odersky wrote Turbo Modula-2.

https://www.artima.com/articles/the-origins-of-scala

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704733

(as with C# vs Scala, Hejlsberg's Turbo Pascal was faster and more popular than Odersky's Turbo Modula-2)