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-Modula2 is Nicholas [Wirth]'s attempt to do a SystemsProgrammingLanguage right. Nicholas Wirth also wrote [Pascal], Modula-2 is it's
more serious successor. It's safer than [C], it prevents most buffer overruns; though it feels more pedantic, you must code all type conversions explicitly and TYPE all KEYWORDS in CAPITAL LETTERS. Some WLUGer fondly remembers it like this:
+Modula2 is Nicholas [Wirth]'s attempt to do a SystemsProgrammingLanguage right. Nicholas Wirth also wrote [Pascal], Modula-2 is its
more serious successor. It's safer than [C], it prevents most buffer overruns; though it feels more pedantic, you must code all type conversions explicitly and TYPE all KEYWORDS in CAPITAL LETTERS. Some WLUGer fondly remembers it like this:
''...a very fascist language they forced us to learn at CanterburyUniversity. It has very strict typing rules, but it does teach you structured programming, I suppose. ''
Modula2 is good, but not used much anymore. Modula2 lost out to [C] and TurboPascal in a popularity race in the early 80's. TurboPascal had a very good, cheap compiler in DOS systems, and quickly evolved into a very similar language. [C] was just there already on [Unix] systems, and Modula-2 lacked anything like C's preprocessor.
