Lilith and Modula-2
Published on: 2025-07-27 01:10:03
Introduction
The programming language Modula-2 was authored by Professor Niklaus Wirth of the Institut fur Informatik of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1979. A joint software / hardware project, in conjunction with the language development produced the advanced programmers' workstation Lilith in 1980. Software developed for the Lilith computer included a compiler, operating system, text and graphic editors and other support software:
ETH Report Nr 40 - The Personal Computer Lilith (The Yellow Report). Apr 1981. N. Wirth
ETH Report Nr 40 (PDF file 1.5 MB)
Multi-Pass Modula-2 Compiler Sources (Lilith M-code)
Professor Niklaus Wirth has kindly given us permission to make the following items publicly available here:
M2M Compiler Sources. Modula Research Institute. Oct 1983
M2M Compiler Sources (Zip file 180 KB)
The first Modula-2 compiler was completed in 1979 and ran on the DEC PDP-11. This is the source code of the PC version of the second Modula-2 compiler. I
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