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What ever happened to Modula-2?

It was supposed to be the successor to Pascal

Note that those systems also used a fair amount of assembly language mixed in, especially when it came to things that need to be fine-tuned to use less memory or be more performant. Nicklaus Wirth felt that something more suitable to operating systems and application development was needed so he began work on Modula. And the extensions provided by Turbo Pascal made it work great for application development, including many things that Modula-2 was also bringing to the table.

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