On: Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

[yawaramin]

It's not clear to me that he means only Modula-2 and Oberon when he says 'modular languages', especially as just in the previous paragraph he says: '...stopped caring much for purely modular languages, including Ada as it was then'

[pjmlp → yawaramin]

Modular languages are languages that support modules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_programming

See "Languages that formally support the module concept include..."