Re: GNU

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:05:55 -0000 (UTC)

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On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:37:48 +1100, Peter Moylan wrote:

> Over the years I used several different Modula-2 compilers for the
> IBM-PC.

I was a Mac man, initially programming in TML Pascal, then switched to
Metrowerks Modula-2. Why? Because Modula-2 was Niklaus Wirth’s
anointed successor to Pascal. It did modularity better for one (hence
the name).

You probably remember Metrowerks because they abandoned their Modula-2
compiler to create CodeWarrior, which became the IDE de rigueur for
PowerPC Macintoshes when Apple made that platform shift.

Eventually I realized that Modula-2 was never going to outlast Pascal.
I gave in to the horde and switched to C at that point.

Nowadays you have a nice range of languages available -- more than I
ever imagined.