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Interesting. I have never heard of Modula-3. I remember Modula-2 and then Oberon. Thanks for sharing.


It was very influential on Java (as the Java people acknowledged in their early documents) and C# (unsafe types).


Wirth didn't make it. It was a good design, though, as illustrated here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

Many commercial projects and even some OSS (eg CVSup) got built with it. SPIN OS as well. Another step in right direction away from things like C++. ;)




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