Talk:Modula-2

message: Is Oberon-2 the latest of Wrth's languages ? AFAIR it grown into Oberon/F aka Component Pascal
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What do you mean by Wirth's languages - ones that he has designed or ones that he has inspired? If it is the latter, Zonnon is probably the latest.
The language Component Pascal, formerly known as Oberon/L (Oberon/F is actually the framework now known as BlackBox) is a product of Oberon Microsystems Inc. who are credited as being the authors of the CP language report. Although Wirth is a director of the company, I don't believe that he was responsible for conceiving the language extensions. I think that was more likely the work of Beat Heeb, Cuno Pfister, Clemens Szyperski et al.
Chris Burrows 00:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

message: The only "major" implementation listed in the infobox is "ACK", which unfortunately is linked to the ASCII control character ACK. Could someone with more knowledge of the Modula-2 world please fix this? —Chris Chittleborough 17:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Implementations

message: Removed this:
:Along with C and Ada, Modula-2 is often regarded as one of the three most significant "modern" programming languages (ie, of the structured programming era). Of the three, Modula-2 is the smallest, easiest to read, easiest to learn, and cleanest designed, both syntactically and conceptually. 
This is in desperate need of a source (or twenty) before going back in. The second sentence is pure opinion lacking even the basic definitions (smallest how?) and the first is at least highly questionable. One of the most significant "modern" programming languages? More significant than Algol, PL/I or for that matter Pascal?
Statements like these are not helpful. We need facts or quoted opinions, not unqualified praise. For one thing, coming out on top in a comparison between C, Ada and yourself is arguably no great feat... 82.92.119.11 21:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modula-2, the language of choice 

message: The first experimental use of Modula-GM in an embedded controller was in the 1993 Gen-4 ECU used by the CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) and IRL (Indy Racing League) teams[2]. The first production use of Modula-GM was its use in GM trucks starting with the 1990 model year
This makes no sense: how could the first experimental use come before the first production use? This site claims that the second generation was used in CART in 1988, which makes more sense.
Metageek (talk) 20:10, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modula-GM 

message: There's no mention of the original Modula, which was the "first" redesign of Pascal. Modula had limitations similar to "classic" Pascal in that the entire program had to be submitted to the compiler as a single compilation unit. There were compilers, and some production systems were created in Modula, mostly in the US Defense community, as early as 1980-1982. --BSD Daemon (talk) 21:23, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modula vs Modula-2 

message: Lilith was running a M-Code. What about P-Code, M-code, S-code (Simula)... ?
--Lf69100 (talk) 07:57, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  M-Code 

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: merge based on WP:N and size - can just be listed as an implementation there and only when/if size issues follow WP:SPINOUT Widefox; talk 19:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Turbo Modula-2]] 

message: There's barely enough content for Modula as it is, a merge of the two articles may be warranted, but under the discretion of genreral consensus. AtlasDuane (talk) 15:46, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Closed, given the consensus to improve rather than merge. Klbrain (talk) 17:38, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Modula]] with [[Modula-2]]