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There were dozens of us!, using M2. I used it on Amiga. It was sort of ironic. I wanted to use C - I guess. But this was pre-internet, pre-university, pre-city. The nearest people to network C with, were cows on the neighbours farm - there weren't any.. I had two C compilers, but no text or people to tell me that you needed to link, what linking was, and in particular, the commandline arguments to do so.. In this world, modula-2 was a godsend. It had a clear type system, clear type definitions, readable error messages, and logical/intuitive tooling, which meant a school kid could figure out how to operate it by themselves. So for a couple of years, I would replicate in M2,what others did in C. I eventually met an environment where I could learn C, but modula2 allowed me to start early.


Yep, this was me with the Atari ST.

It was tough, though, the ST's OS really was written with C in mind. Lots of void pointer action which Wirth languages really didn't get along with.




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