これまで、数え切れないほどの言語が脚光を浴び、そして静かに消えていくのを見てきました。しかし、時折、歴史の影に隠れた「敗者」とも言える言語の中に、現代の私たちが学ぶべき驚くほど先進的な教訓が眠っていることがあります。 その代表格が ...

In the second half of the last decade of the last century, I found Niklaus Wirth's Modula to Oberon transpiler as binhex files on some ftp server, most probably it was the ftp server of the GWDG ...

たぶん誰も読まないだろうと始めたプログラミング遍歴が、意外と好評なので、番外編では、普及せずに消滅したプログラミング言語などを紹介します。 Modula-2(モジュラ・ツー)は、1978年頃にチューリッヒ工科大学のニクラウス・ヴィルトにより ...

Last month the Spy opined on the software crisis–safety, security, and reliability having been abandoned for quick-and-dirty-get-it-out-the-door and let the customers do our debugging, software has ...

Over the last two months the Spy introduced the motivation for he and Telecom engineer Benjamin Kowarsch developing a new language, or more precisely, a fully modern dialect of an existing notation–to ...

Abstract: MODULA Corporation of Provo, Utah has shipped a $90.00 Beta site version of Modula-2 which runs reasonably well on a single disk 128K Macintosh. This paper attempts to make the case that ...

Incoming support for Modula-2 in GCC, and a new Gitlab repository for its descendant Oberon, shows that the Wirthian family of programming languages remains livelier than you might think. Modula-2 is ...

The Modula-2 programming language was recently extended with OO and generic programming facilities. Both the language and the extensions were standardized by the ISO/IEC. We provide a short ...