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Re:Niklaus Wirth has died by greggman7 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:52PM (#38861802)
Lords of the Rising Sun was written in Modula2 on the Amiga

https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun

My understanding (please correct me) is that Turbo Pascal on PC was actually Modula2 ?

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Re:Niklaus Wirth has died by linsomniac on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @11:18PM (#38862934)
The recent discussion here about Turbo Pascal commenters said it was written in assembly. Seems to be supported by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
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Re:Niklaus Wirth has died by greggman7 on Thursday January 04, 2024 @02:29PM (#38871192)
I'm not suggesting Turbo Pascal was written in Modula2, I'm saying it implemented Modula2, not Pascal. Modula2 is a superset of Pascal. Pascal never had modules AFAIK but Turbo Pascal did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2

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Re:Niklaus Wirth has died by pjmlp on Thursday January 04, 2024 @03:16AM (#38864486)
No, Borland did have a Modula-2 compiler (where actually Martin Odersky of Scala fame worked on), but they decided to focus on Turbo Pascal and sold it.
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Re:Niklaus Wirth has died by FabHK on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:33AM (#38865419)
There was a fun break-out clone on the Atari ST, Bolo, that was written in Modula-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone)

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html

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