Modula-2

Structured procedural language introduced by Niklaus Wirth in 1979, based on his earlier Pascal language but adds modular and incremental compilation, and a number of "programming in the large" features.

Modula 2 was hugely influential in the field of informatics and at the least 50 other languages have been based on it in addition to having a direct or indirect influence on languages like Basic, Java, C# and Object Pascal, amongst the more notable languages that have been based on M2 are Modula 3, Parallaxis, Yafl, Oberon, Oberon-2, IEC61131, Umbriel, Component Pascal and Zonnon.

A list of OS/2 implementations of Modula 2

• Canterbury Modula 2 & Oberon-2 - Discontinued
• Gardens Point Modula 2 Was available in both Commercial and Open Source variants - Discontinued.
• Pecan UCSD Pascal - Add on package for the Pascal system, 16 bit OS/2 only - Discontinued.
• Stony Brook Professional Modula-2 - 16 bit only - Discontinued
• TopSpeed Modula-2 - 16 bit only - Discontinued
• XDS-x86 Modula 2 - Discontinued

A list of DOS implementations of Modula 2

• FTL Modula 2 - Discontinued
• FST Modula 2 - Discontinued - Freeware
• Gardens Point Modula 2 Was available in both Commercial and Open Source variants - Discontinued.
• Logitech Modula-2 - Discontinued
• Pecan UCSD Pascal - Add on package for the DOS hosted UCSD Pascal system - Discontinued.
• TopSpeed Modula-2 - Discontinued
• Stony Brook Professional Modula-2 - Discontinued
• XDS-x86 Modula 2 - Discontinued

A list of Modula 2 implementations that run under Win-OS/2

• Stony Brook Professional Modula-2 - Discontinued

A list of Modula 2 implementations that run under Java

• MHC Modula 2 For Java - Discontinued
• modula2jcc - Current - Open source.

Publications

• A list of Modula 2 Books by Peter Moylan Outdated but fairly comprehensive up until the latter half of the 90's

Tutorials and other learning material

• Richard J. Sutcliffe: Modula-2: Abstractions for Data and Programming Structures Oriented towards institutional learning rather than self help and uses ISO M2, but fairly recent.

Standards

• ISO10514-2 Adds an OOP layer
• ISO10514-3 Adds generics