At my uni the first programming semester is Pascal, and the second used to be Modula-2. They only introduced C on the third semester. They changed it a couple of years ago, so now they never get to know Modula-2. I see their point in removing it (it's very old fashioned, more than modern Pascal in some ways), but I feel something of value was lost
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Interesting. I had read a BYTE magazine article about Modula-2, back in the day. This was after having been a fairly heavy Turbo Pascal user for a while. Never got to try it out, but from the article, I thought Modula-2 seemed like a good language, a sort of better Pascal in some ways, and good for systems programming.
In those days BYTE used to have very good and interesting article about all kinds of both hardware and software topics, and not only mainstream (at the time) ones either. E.g. there was an issue dedicated to Lisp and another one dedicated to Smalltalk, IIRC. Later it got more commercialized, with less good content, shorter and less in-depth articles, and more ads.
Some old BYTE articles or issues are there on the Internet Archive.
The BYTE archive is here:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?&sort=-date&page=2
Wow, thanks a lot. I anticipate many hours of interesting reading in my free time.
Just had a quick look for now; here are a Lisp and a Smalltalk issue:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08
, for anyone interested.