Modula-2

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1983)

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brucehoult

avowkind

undoingemptyvoid

dabeaz

gnat

tartley

thumper

eMBee

mrtrosen

fdrake

nnrcschmdt

davidpaccoud

brucehoult - 12 years

avowkind - 1 years

undoingemptyvoid - 1 years

dabeaz - 1 years

gnat - 1 years

tartley - 1 years

thumper - 1 years

eMBee - 2 years

mrtrosen - 2 years

fdrake - 2 years

nnrcschmdt - 2 years

davidpaccoud - 1 years

brucehoult

1983–1994

Modula-2 always seemed like a better Pascal, but never really took off commercially.

undoingemptyvoid

1986

Bought some early version of somebody's Modula-2 Compiler. Played around a bit but did not take it very far. When I found C I found myself not caring to go much further.

avowkind

1986

tried it, mainly as the compiler was one of the early ones to bust the 640K memorylimit on the PC. But never really took off.

dabeaz

1990

Wrote a small amount of Modula-2 related to a graphics library I implemented in x86 assembler.

gnat

1991

This was the language taught in 2nd year Computer Science. What I learned from this: a brilliant idea (like Pascal) is rarely followed by more brilliant ideas.

tartley

1991

thumper

1992

Taught as part of the algorithms and data structures course. Never used it outside university.

eMBee

1992–1993

learned in university

mrtrosen

1993–1994

Modula-2 was the programming language UND used when I was a freshman for freshman computer science classes. I quickly abandoned it for C++.

fdrake