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From: David_Michael_McCord@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula2 extensions
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Date: 10 Apr 88 16:37:20 GMT
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In the Turbo Modula-2 written by Borland (but only available for use on
Z80-compatible systems), extensions are available that greatly simplify
the I/O.  As you might expect, it is very Turbo-Pascal-like, with WRITE, READ
etc., which take any data type and a variable number of arguments.

It does make programming a lot simpler, but is definitely non-portable to
any other Modula compiler I know of.  Perhaps other modula enthusiasts
would like to post notes describing their favorite compiler's extensions,
or discuss how portable a given extension may be.