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 ...

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 ...

This paper demonstrates techniques that enable efficient translation of Modula-2 programs to C. It focuses on a key problem that appears during translation: local procedures and modules. The ...

Hey guys. I am trying to write a simple Library Module for generating random numbers. I am very new to Modula-2 and cannot find decent bit manipulation modules to implement the algorithms I want to ...

Although perhaps not as much of a household name as other pioneers of last century’s rapid evolution of computer hardware and the software running on them, Niklaus Wirth’s contributions puts him right ...

(MODUlar LAnguage-2) An enhanced version of Pascal introduced in 1979 by Swiss professor Nicklaus Wirth, creator of Pascal. It supports separate compilation of modules, allowing it to be used for ...