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Re:Lilith and Modula-2 by pjmlp on Sunday May 04, 2025 @03:57PM (#43889104)
It is, as do all C derived languages.

After Pascal, all languages that Niklaus Wirth created were case sensitive.

Uppercase keywords are debatable as a style, however with good IDE tooling hardly an issue.

Similarly to BASIC and SQL, or spaces in ML languages and Python, don't use Notepad like editors for them, use something with autoformatter.

Pity that in Modula-2 case those products are long gone, and I doubt many would bother with a VSCode extension or something.

Re:Lilith and Modula-2 by trealira on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:35AM (#43894976)
There is a VSCode extension for syntax highlighting in Modula-2: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=redstar....
Re:Lilith and Modula-2 by pjmlp on Monday May 05, 2025 @09:51AM (#43895127)
Yes, I guess it could be a starting point for automatic formating as well.