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From: marti@inf.ethz.ch (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula
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Date: 9 Apr 90 15:24:36 GMT
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In article <4146@ethz.UUCP>, mrys@ethz.UUCP (Michael Rys) writes:
> 3. The history of M2 (as far as I remember):
>    After visiting PARC Xerox and playing with Mesa, Wirth came back to
>    the ETH and designed Modula a true system programming language. This
>    language was revised to a full programming language called Modula-2
>    in the late seventies (around 1977/8), [...]

Almost.  Modula was designed (and probably implemented) before Niklaus
Wirth went to Xerox PARC.  After he returned, he designed Modula-2
which indeed inherited some concepts from Mesa, most notably the
separation of modules into a definition and an implementation part.

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