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by pjmlp 2050 days ago
> Modules as a language feature were first developed in Modula-2 and Pascal, which were developed as a way to demarcate units of compilation.

Actually Mesa.
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Rochus 2050 days ago
Right. Wirth developed Modula after his first PARC sabbatical, where he worked with the Alto and Mesa. Modula supported even nested modules. And Pascal didn't have modules at all.
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