Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features.
replyApparently the Russian Glonass satellites are programmed in Modula-2 [1] which seems like a wild choice.
reply1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2#Russian_radionavigati...
Yeah, that Algol code is not very pretty :-).
I'm sticking with my namesake from 1980...
replyOne thing I always liked about some older languages was being able to have blanks in identifiers. Although I see that they actually managed to invent a new stropping variant that doesn't work with that… For the "kids"…
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