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MarcusE1Wtoday at 7:01 AM1 replyview on HN

Modula 3 is a missed gem to me. Turbo Pascal was still a thing and C/C++ became popular and it was kind of missed that there was a new language that provided many things that were popular at the time: OOP, or quite new: garbage collection plus lots of free documentation. Computer books were very expensive.

I tried it recently and discovered that it also came with a multi-platform (Windows/Unix) GUI/Graphics library called Trestle.

https://modula3.github.io/cm3/src_reports/src-069.pdf

This GUI library from the beginning of the 90th still works :-D


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RossBencinatoday at 8:21 AM

Thanks for sharing. Hadn't seen that particular presentation of binary splits before.