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Writing an Operating System with Modula-3 (1995) [pdf]

• drudru11 11y ago
  Interesting. I have never heard of Modula-3. I remember Modula-2 and then Oberon. Thanks for sharing.
  • zumatic 11y ago
    It was very influential on Java (as the Java people acknowledged in their early documents) and C# (unsafe types).
  • nickpsecurity 11y ago
    Wirth didn't make it. It was a good design, though, as illustrated here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3 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++. ;)
• moomin 11y ago
  Modula-3 was a required course at Cambridge, including for postgrad (which I did). I _hated_ it, and so did most of the others on the course. It did structural polymorphism well before Go, but did the whole thing through a 32-bit hash. This meant you could (quite easily) structure a type that was castable to Int, String, anything you wanted... And OMG the ridiculously verbose syntax.
  • zumatic 11y ago
    [quote]And OMG the ridiculously verbose syntax.[/quote] Not as bad as Ada, VHDL, Cobol etc.!
    • moomin 11y ago
      Seriously, we were using 80x25 terminals, and everyone was designing languages where you couldn't write a simple function that fit on the page!