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Modula-3 Dead

Modula-3
KindProgramming language
Appeared1988
StatusDead
CreatorCardelli et al / DEC SRC & Olivetti
FamilyPascal
Sourcewww.modula3.org ↗

The research consortium's peak Wirthian language — objects, generics, GC, threads, partial revelations of unsafe code; too elegant for its market window.

Descended from Modula-2
Created by Luca Cardelli
Influenced Python

DEC/Olivetti's Modula-3 (1988) — the Modula line's peak — added objects, exceptions, generics, and threads to Wirth's base, with a formal definition (SPWM3).\n\nIt was the most elegant systems-OO language never to matter commercially; Critical Mass's CM3 and Modula-3.org maintain it.

Sources

  1. modula3.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3