Modula-2 Programming Language Front-End Still Looking Towards Mainline GCC In 2021

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Modula-2 Programming Language Front-End Still Looking Towards Mainline GCC In 2021

The Modula-2 programming language developed from the late 70's to 80's might finally see mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support in 2021...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Modula-2-GCC-Mainline-Hope-2021

[hoohoo]

Modula 2 as a step up from Pascal was great. Once I learned C though, no going back.

[c117152]

Modula 2 as a step up from Pascal was great. Once I learned C though, no going back.

Not sure how going from C to Modula 2 is backwards in any way... But I think most of Modula2's userbase ended up using Free Pascal so I can't blame you

Anyhow, Go combines Oberon and C rather well so you'd do well to check it out once generics are out later in the year.

[wizard69]

Why?

Back in the day RIT was teaching with Modula 2 and honestly I never saw the point. Of course back then we didn't have the huge standard libraries that most languages come with these days.

[L_A_G]

To some extent I can understand ISAs from the 1970s (Z80) and 1980s (M68k) still being supported due to a wide range of low-power embedded systems using them, but languages with very little real world use? Specially in what's supposed to be a production compiler suite and not something a maintained and developed for fun by people in their free time.

[sykobee]

I did a term of Modula 2 in the first year of university - although to be honest the best bit was the excellent syntax highlighter for Emacs someone had done. The next year, instead of exploring the OO parts of Modula 2 (or 3) we moved onto the new thing, Java.

[hoohoo]

Not sure how going from C to Modula 2 is backwards in any way... But I think most of Modula2's userbase ended up using Free Pascal so I can't blame you

Anyhow, Go combines Oberon and C rather well so you'd do well to check it out once generics are out later in the year.

C was a dominant language in the Linux/UNIX world. I just wanted to write software, and C is IMO an extremely flexible language. So flexible that ever since it became dominant ppl have been inventing new languages to save us from C's flexibility. Modula or Oberon, one could not always find a compiler for one's platform, and then I liked the C typecast method also.

[c117152]

C was a dominant language in the Linux/UNIX world. I just wanted to write software, and C is IMO an extremely flexible language.

Flexibility is a good way of putting it since the more range of motion you have in a given movement, the more muscle you need to recruit to go through that fuller range of motion and the more tension your tendons need to handle.

Often enough, less is better.

[alcalde]

Why?

Back in the day RIT was teaching with Modula 2 and honestly I never saw the point. Of course back then we didn't have the huge standard libraries that most languages come with these days.

RIT? That's where I learned Modula 2 too.

[alcalde]

I'm holding out for Modula 3 appearing somewhere around 2030 or so.