On: Writing an Operating System with Modula-3 (1995) [pdf]

[moomin]

Modula-3 was a required course at Cambridge, including for postgrad (which I did). I _hated_ it, and so did most of the others on the course.

It did structural polymorphism well before Go, but did the whole thing through a 32-bit hash. This meant you could (quite easily) structure a type that was castable to Int, String, anything you wanted...

And OMG the ridiculously verbose syntax.

[zumatic → moomin]

[quote]And OMG the ridiculously verbose syntax.[/quote]

Not as bad as Ada, VHDL, Cobol etc.!

[moomin → zumatic]

Seriously, we were using 80x25 terminals, and everyone was designing languages where you couldn't write a simple function that fit on the page!