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That might as well be the case, but Wirth did Pascal eight years before Modula-2, yet the former feels way more modern.
by sedatk 4y ago
That might as well be the case, but Wirth did Pascal eight years before Modula-2, yet the former feels way more modern.
- pjmlp 4y agoNot really, unless you're talking about Extended Pascal or the several dialects. ISO Pascal as Wirth originally designed it, only was modern in the sense of being much easier than ALGOL to implement and master, as learning language. Meanwhile Modula-2 was designed from the start to be a type safe systems programming language, based on Wirth's learnings with Mesa at Xerox PARC.