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History of Programming Languages archive
Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages table of contents

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Pages: 3-1 - 3-10

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-766-X

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Niklaus Wirth

ETH Zurich

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This is an account of the development of the languages Modula-2 and Oberon. Together with their ancestors ALGOL 60 and Pascal they form a family called Algol-like languages. Pascal (1970) reflected the ideas of structured programming, Modula-2 (1979) added those of modular system design, and Oberon (1988) catered to the object-oriented style. Thus they mirror the essential programming paradigms of the past decades. Here the major language properties are outlined, followed by an account of the respective implementation efforts. The conditions and the environments in which the languages were created are elucidated. We point out that simplicity of design was the most essential guiding principle. Clarity of concepts, economy of features, efficiency and reliability of implementations were its consequences.

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