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modula-2

[′mäj·ə·lə ′tü]
(computer science)
A general-purpose programming language that allows a computer program to be written as separate modules which can be compiled separately but can share a common code.
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Modula-2

(language)
A high-level programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in 1978. It is a derivative of Pascal with well-defined interfaces between modules, and facilities for parallel computation. Modula-2 was developed as the system language for the Lilith workstation.

The central concept is the module which may be used to encapsulate a set of related subprograms and data structures, and restrict their visibility from other portions of the program. Each module has a definition part giving the interface, and an implementation part.

The language provides limited single-processor concurrency (monitors, coroutines and explicit transfer of control) and hardware access (absolute addresses and interrupts). It uses name equivalence.

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["Programming in Modula-2", N. Wirth, Springer 1985].
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In Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5, we introduce in stages the extensions of the language, and summarize them in Section 6, where we also discuss the features of Modula-2 which are at this stage not implemented in Alma-0.
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