> If memory serves, JPI did a Modula2 compiler that looked quite a bit like Turbo Pascal.
There was. I bought (and used) it twice back in the day.
It was fast, simple, clean, modular (as you'd expect), and the IDE was the best IDE ever - in relation to its power/performance vs the machines it ran on at the time, obviously, not in absolute terms.
For the Pascal influence you only need to look at the career of Anders Hejlsberg of C# and TypeScript fame. Plus Free Pascal and Lazarus are (arguably) the best modern-day cross platform native desktop software development tools (like an open source cross-platform Delphi).
There was. I bought (and used) it twice back in the day.
It was fast, simple, clean, modular (as you'd expect), and the IDE was the best IDE ever - in relation to its power/performance vs the machines it ran on at the time, obviously, not in absolute terms.
For the Pascal influence you only need to look at the career of Anders Hejlsberg of C# and TypeScript fame. Plus Free Pascal and Lazarus are (arguably) the best modern-day cross platform native desktop software development tools (like an open source cross-platform Delphi).