http://www.osnews.com/story/20066/The_A-Z_of_Programming_Languages_Modula-3 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:02:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?323143 http://osnews.com/thread?323143 I remember reading the Modula-3 manual before even C# existed.

And several C# features were already available on Modula-3, like the unsafe keywords.

The language is really cool, except for its object system, which is a bit unnatural for many developers.

The other thing that puts some developers apart is that it has a Pascal like syntax.

It is a good language nonetheless. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moondevil) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?323147 http://osnews.com/thread?323147 In the early ninethies modula-2 with no real GUI at college :-) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?323152 http://osnews.com/thread?323152 From the article:

(...) the most exciting Modula-3 design meeting ever, was abruptly interrupted by the San Francisco 7.1 earthquake.

Does he mean that it was the most exciting meeting because of the earthquake, or was it exciting in itself, and just unfortunately was interrupted by an earthquake? Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Detlef Niehof) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?323166 http://osnews.com/thread?323166 No, Modula 2 & 3 did not take of because of Pascal rather than Java, which did adopt the same features, but with backwards compatibility and mature development tools.

Java has too much problems of its own to take over the world. It's popular in some parts of the programming world, but not a language you can throw at everything. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dmantione) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?323175 http://osnews.com/thread?323175 I never got to use Modular 3, our work had written an application in it, but I never got to work on that project. The closest I got was Delphi, which I still love...

I should check out what M3 has going for it... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (thavith_osn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?323202 http://osnews.com/thread?323202 Modula-2? Yes - I still have my Modula-2 books from the mid eighties. Oh, those were the days... Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tingo) Comments