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One of the few languages out there designed as a systems language from the outset. Originally developed by Acorn USA an operating system development tool and called Modula-2+, it added multitasking, threading and multi programming features to the Modula-2 programming language, but M2 itself is a development of Pascal by its original author and adds separately compiled modules, stricter & clearer syntax and a host of system programming additions to Pascal in addition to a general clean up of the language features. Modula 3 is a development that adds memory management (garbage collection), type & generic safety features, generic programming, better exception handling and object-oriented extensions to Modula-2+.

A list of OS/2 implementations of Modula-3

SRC Modula 3 - Open source - Discontinued
Modula 3 Reboot - Open source - Current?

Libraries and bindings

A list of DOS implementations of Modula-3

SRC Modula 3 - Open source - Discontinued
M3PC-Klagenfurt - Open source - Discontinued

Publications

Local articles

Tutorials and other learning material

Links

Modula-3 Org - Info and links on the Modula 3 language.

USENET

comp.lang.modula3 - Very low volume - Go to the Google groups version if you or your ISP are newsgroup challenged in some way.

Standards

The revised version of the original Modula-3 report and the associated paper Some useful Modula-3 interfaces.

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-One of the few languages out there designed as a systems language from the outset
+One of the few languages out there designed as a systems language from the outset. Originally developed by Acorn USA an operating system development tool and called Modula-2+, it added multitasking, threading and multi programming features to the [[Modula-2]] programming language, but M2 itself is a development of [[Pascal]] by its original author and adds separately compiled modules, stricter & clearer syntax and a host of system programming additions to Pascal in addition to a general clean up of the language features. Modula 3 is a development that adds memory management (garbage collection), type & generic safety features, generic programming, better exception handling and object-oriented extensions to Modula-2+.
 ==A list of OS/2 implementations of Modula-3==