Modula-3

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?

A list of DOS implementations of Modula-3

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

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 below
• Some useful Modula-3 interfaces.