On: Niklaus Wirth has died

[greggman7]

Lords of the Rising Sun was written in Modula2 on the Amiga

https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun

My understanding (please correct me) is that Turbo Pascal on PC was actually Modula2 ?

[pjmlp → greggman7]

No, Borland did have a Modula-2 compiler (where actually Martin Odersky of Scala fame worked on), but they decided to focus on Turbo Pascal and sold it.

[FabHK → greggman7]

There was a fun break-out clone on the Atari ST, Bolo, that was written in Modula-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone)

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html

[linsomniac → greggman7]

The recent discussion here about Turbo Pascal commenters said it was written in assembly. Seems to be supported by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

[greggman7 → linsomniac]

I'm not suggesting Turbo Pascal was written in Modula2, I'm saying it implemented Modula2, not Pascal. Modula2 is a superset of Pascal. Pascal never had modules AFAIK but Turbo Pascal did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2