| ▲ | srean 6 hours ago |
| Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688380 |
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| ▲ | mrweasel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Apparently the Russian Glonass satellites are programmed in Modula-2 [1] which seems like a wild choice. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2#Russian_radionavigati... |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Well, back in the 1980's up to early 90's, Modula-2 enjoyed a mild success in Europe. Given that it was available in 1978, and the satellites launched in 1982, it seems a plausible choice like any other, given the computing ecosystem at the time. | |
| ▲ | bonzini 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | In 1999 I used Modula-2 for my first computer science/programming languages exam at university. The environment was a bit like Turbo Pascal 3.0, though with a more complete language (TP3 had no modules/units) and library, comparable perhaps to TP5. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp an hour ago | parent [-] | | Units were introduced in Turbo Pascal 4, then TP 5.5 added OOP based on Apple's Object Pascal, further improvements were then based on the Object Pasca / C++ relationship on Borland's compilers. |
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| ▲ | cmrdporcupine an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The first compiler I ever bought with my own money was a Modula-2 compiler for my Atari ST I picked up second hand for something like $100 CAD, which was a lot back in the late 80s for a teenager. Was a mistake not to just do C, though. The Atari ST's whole OS environment was built with C void pointers and duck typing in mind. |
