Modula-2
Proper noun
Meaning
Modula-2
(computing) A programming language descended from Pascal, developed between 1977 and 1985 at the ETH in Zurich.
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In 1987, when Turbo Pascal 4 was released, Modula-2 was making inroads as an educational language which could replace Pascal.
This report provided submodules, which make Fortran modules more similar to Modula-2 modules.
JPI first launched a MS-DOS compiler named JPI Modula-2, that later became TopSpeed Modula-2, and followed up with TopSpeed C, TopSpeed C++ and TopSpeed Pascal compilers for both the MS-DOS and OS/2 operating systems.
Instead of porting their Modula-2 compiler to DOS, Borland chose to implement separate compilation in their established Pascal product.