After self teaching myself BASIC and Pascal as a kid, Modula-2 was the language we first learnt at university in order to teach us programming fundamentals. It was a nice move from Pascal for me but I preferred Delphi.
Although the keywords in Modula-2 weren’t case sensitive and weren’t required to be in upper case, it was preferred (guidance from Niklaus Wirth) and that was just annoying.
pjmlp · 2h ago
Modula-2 didn't had OOP as standard feature, although some compilers did use Modula-3 classes as extension, like XDS.
Was this the case or something else?
Always looking to improve my knowledge on Wirthian languages.
junto · 2h ago
I think it’s more likely I’m misremembering. It is now over 30 years ago.
Next on the list at university was C++, so more than likely my brain is deliberately blocking out that language. :-)
emme · 1h ago
I started programming with Modula-2 and I really believe it was case sensitive. In fact I remember the book I used to learn it (Ogilvie) mentioning the case sensitiveness as a peculiarity of the language: "if case matters in natural languages, why programming languages should ignore it"
Although the keywords in Modula-2 weren’t case sensitive and weren’t required to be in upper case, it was preferred (guidance from Niklaus Wirth) and that was just annoying.
Was this the case or something else?
Always looking to improve my knowledge on Wirthian languages.
Next on the list at university was C++, so more than likely my brain is deliberately blocking out that language. :-)