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Happy Birthday, Dr. Niklaus Wirth! (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 28.07.2011, 02:55
(edited by Rugxulo on 28.07.2011, 22:44)

> Honorable mention (Wirth did give much advice for this derivative):
>
> http://apotheca.hpl.hp.com/ftp/pub/DEC/SRC/Modula-3/contrib/m3pc/ ('94)
> http://apotheca.hpl.hp.com/ftp/pub/DEC/SRC/Modula-3/contrib/M3forDOS/
>
> (EDIT): P.S. Except for OberonOS (confusing) and M3forDOS (ex32, didn't
> work on real PC or DOSBox), I've tried all of these briefly. If I knew how
> (so far tried and failed), I'd get OO2C, m3/pc '96, and GNU Modula-2 to
> build with DJGPP.

One guy (finally) found M3/PC 1996, which is ultra ultra rare. Unlike older versions, it uses DJGPPv2, so it should (in theory) work better (e.g. WinXP). Just FYI.

EDIT: Just for clarity, Modula-3 supported OOP, generics, exceptions, threads (though DOS needs explicit "yield"), safe system programming (e.g. SPIN OS), and garbage collection. It influenced both Java and Python.

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• Happy Birthday, Dr. Niklaus Wirth! - Rugxulo, 16.02.2011, 00:36 (Developers)
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  • Happy Birthday, Dr. Niklaus Wirth! - Rugxulo, 28.07.2011, 02:55
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