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Modula-2 Maintenance

Modula-2
KindProgramming language
Appeared1978
StatusMaintenance
CreatorNiklaus Wirth
FamilyPascal
Sourcewww.modula2.org ↗

Wirth's modules for real systems — Lilith ran on it, and GNU Modula-2 merged into GCC 13 four decades later.

Descended from Pascal Modula
Created by Niklaus Wirth
Descendants Oberon Modula-3
Predecessors Modula

Wirth's Modula-2 (1978) — Pascal with modules, coroutines, and low-level access — was designed as a systems language for the Lilith workstation, its own OS written in itself.\n\nIt influenced Ada, Oberon, and the idea of the separate-compilation unit; PIM/ISO standard compilers still exist.

Sources

  1. modula2.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2