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A programming language descended from Pascal, developed in the 1970s and having a module system for grouping sets of related declarations into program units.
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JPI first launched a MS-DOS compiler named JPI Modula-2, that later became TopSpeed Modula-2, and followed up with TopSpeed C, TopSpeed C++ and TopSpeed Pascal compilers for both the MS-DOS and OS/2 operating systems.
Very soon other implementations followed, most important the University of York Modula compiler and a compiler developed at Philips Laboratories named PL Modula, which generated code for the LSI-11 microprocessor.
In 1987, when Turbo Pascal 4 was released, Modula-2 was making inroads as an educational language which could replace Pascal.
Instead of porting their Modula-2 compiler to DOS, Borland chose to implement separate compilation in their established Pascal product.
The language is defined in a report by Wirth called Modula.
This report provided submodules, which make Fortran modules more similar to Modula-2 modules.