Modula
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| Modula | |
|---|---|
| Paradigms | Imperative, structured, modular |
| Family | Wirth Modula |
| Designed by | Niklaus Wirth |
| Developer | Niklaus Wirth |
| First appeared | 1975; 50 years ago (1975) |
| Typing discipline | Static, strong, safe |
| Scope | Lexical |
| Platform | PDP-11, LSI-11 |
| Influenced by | |
| Pascal | |
| Influenced | |
| Alma-0, Go, Modula-2 | |
The Modula programming language is a descendant of the Pascal language. It was developed in Switzerland, at ETH Zurich, in the mid-1970s by Niklaus Wirth, the same person who designed Pascal. The main innovation of Modula over Pascal is a module system, used for grouping sets of related declarations into program units; hence the name Modula. The language is defined in a report by Wirth called Modula. A language for modular multiprogramming published 1976.[1]
Modula was first implemented by Wirth on a PDP-11. Very soon, other implementations followed, most importantly, the compilers developed for University of York Modula, and one at Philips Laboratories named PL Modula, which generated code for the LSI-11 microprocessor.
The development of Modula was discontinued soon after its publication. Wirth then concentrated his efforts on Modula's successor, Modula-2.
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Wirth, Niklaus (1 January 1976). "Modula: a language for modular multiprogramming". ETH Library . ETH Zurich. doi:10.3929/ethz-a-000199440.
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