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which languages? I've just restored an Amiga 500 with Workbench 2.1 and I'd love to honor his memory.

by sterlind 3y ago

mkesper 3y ago
Modula2 was available and got used on Amiga. Silly teenager me found such high level languages "cheating" at the time.
- greggman7 3y ago
  Lords of the Rising Sun was written in Modula2 on the Amiga https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun My understanding (please correct me) is that Turbo Pascal on PC was actually Modula2 ?
  - linsomniac 3y ago
    The recent discussion here about Turbo Pascal commenters said it was written in assembly. Seems to be supported by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
    - greggman7 3y ago
      I'm not suggesting Turbo Pascal was written in Modula2, I'm saying it implemented Modula2, not Pascal. Modula2 is a superset of Pascal. Pascal never had modules AFAIK but Turbo Pascal did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    No, Borland did have a Modula-2 compiler (where actually Martin Odersky of Scala fame worked on), but they decided to focus on Turbo Pascal and sold it.
  - FabHK 3y ago
    There was a fun break-out clone on the Atari ST, Bolo, that was written in Modula-2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone) http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html
bhaak 3y ago
At least several Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon-2 compilers. My very first compiled programming language was Pascal. I got the free "PCQ Pascal" from the Fish disks as I wasn't able to get the C headers from Commodore which I would have needed for doing proper Amiga programming. Likewise later Oberon-A although I don't remember where I got that from. There were also commercial Modula-2 and Oberon-2 compilers. I just found that the Modula-2 compiler was open sourced some years back. https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/ https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/ Aminet has directories for Oberon and Modula-2 related programs: https://aminet.net/dev/obero https://aminet.net/dev/obero and https://aminet.net/dev/m2 https://aminet.net/dev/m2

which languages? I've just restored an Amiga 500 with Workbench 2.1 and I'd love to honor his memory.

mkesper 3y ago

Modula2 was available and got used on Amiga. Silly teenager me found such high level languages "cheating" at the time.

greggman7 3y ago
Lords of the Rising Sun was written in Modula2 on the Amiga https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun My understanding (please correct me) is that Turbo Pascal on PC was actually Modula2 ?
- linsomniac 3y ago
  The recent discussion here about Turbo Pascal commenters said it was written in assembly. Seems to be supported by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
  - greggman7 3y ago
    I'm not suggesting Turbo Pascal was written in Modula2, I'm saying it implemented Modula2, not Pascal. Modula2 is a superset of Pascal. Pascal never had modules AFAIK but Turbo Pascal did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
- pjmlp 3y ago
  No, Borland did have a Modula-2 compiler (where actually Martin Odersky of Scala fame worked on), but they decided to focus on Turbo Pascal and sold it.
- FabHK 3y ago
  There was a fun break-out clone on the Atari ST, Bolo, that was written in Modula-2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone) http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html

bhaak 3y ago

At least several Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon-2 compilers. My very first compiled programming language was Pascal. I got the free "PCQ Pascal" from the Fish disks as I wasn't able to get the C headers from Commodore which I would have needed for doing proper Amiga programming. Likewise later Oberon-A although I don't remember where I got that from. There were also commercial Modula-2 and Oberon-2 compilers. I just found that the Modula-2 compiler was open sourced some years back. https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/ https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/ Aminet has directories for Oberon and Modula-2 related programs: https://aminet.net/dev/obero https://aminet.net/dev/obero and https://aminet.net/dev/m2 https://aminet.net/dev/m2