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		protomyth on March 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The School of Wirth I remember the Modula-2 I used in 1988-1991 was a royal pain in the butt to do any I/O. It was a pain compared to Turbo Pascal and, as Koshkin stated, already had modules with a significant ecosystem.

nine_k on March 15, 2021 [–]

Funny; TopSpeed Modula-2, available around that time, had a fine I/O library. Damn, it had coroutines! Much less ergonomic than Go's, though.

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