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Wirth’s early languages, Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, and Modula did not have garbage collection—memory management was up to the programmer. Later languages Modula-3
by todd8 8y ago
Wirth’s early languages, Euler, Algol-W, Pascal, and Modula did not have garbage collection—memory management was up to the programmer. Later languages Modula-3, Oberon, and Component Pascal do have garbage collection.
- srean 8y agoWirth had nothing to do with Modula-3 though. [Prior to edit:] Modula-3 had nothing to do with Modula-3 though.
- newnewpdro 8y ago> Modula-3 had nothing to do with Modula-3 though. What?
- srean 8y agoI snorted my drink out after reading it myself. Thank you for catching that.
- pjmlp 8y agoYes he had, although it is not a direct creation from him. Modula-3 is the evolution of Mesa/Cedar, after the researchers went to DEC and created Modula-2+, an improved version of Mesa/Cedar. They collaborated with Wirth on their work. "The design of the programming language Modula-3 was a joint effort by the Digital Systems Research Center and the Olivetti Research Center, undertaken with the guidance and inspiration of Niklaus Wirth." http://lucacardelli.name/papers/modula3typesystem.a4.pdf http://lucacardelli.name/papers/modula3typesystem.a4.pdf