Modula2 port? GNU Modula2?

Kenneth Wolcott kennethwolcott at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 05:26:42 UTC 2025


Thanks for the tip, but I'm already redoing all of my Ada (from long
ago) and even going forwards with it.

Ken

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM Dipl. Inform. Martin Krischik
<martin at krischik.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Kenneth
>
> > Am 12.06.2025 um 21:41 schrieb Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I'd sure like to have a Modula2 port.
> >
> > I see that Modula3 seems very dead...
>
>
> Why not use Ada instead? Ada too has a Pascal based syntax and there is nothing Modula 2 or Modula 3 can do that Ada can’t do while Ada can do a lot more. Most notably Ada has Design By Contract like D and Eiffel.
>
> And we have a fully functional GNU-Ada implementation which is in active development.
>
> I have programmed Modula 2 back in the day but once I discovered Ada I switched. Ada is what Pascal should have been.
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
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