JPI Modula-2 was my first proper compiler on my childhood PC! I loved it, it was nicer to use than either Turbo Pascal or C.
I actually bought my first ever hard disk (a mighty 10MB as I remember, more storage than I'd ever be able to use), for something like £200, an absolute fortune to an adolescent in 1986, just so that I could install modula-2 permanently in the machine and could stop swapping compiler floppies and program floppies all the time.
But when I first got access to UNIX boxes as a postgrad there was C but no Modula-2, so I switched to C, which could do everything Modula-2 could do except it was a bit more fragile and treacherous.
I actually bought my first ever hard disk (a mighty 10MB as I remember, more storage than I'd ever be able to use), for something like £200, an absolute fortune to an adolescent in 1986, just so that I could install modula-2 permanently in the machine and could stop swapping compiler floppies and program floppies all the time.
But when I first got access to UNIX boxes as a postgrad there was C but no Modula-2, so I switched to C, which could do everything Modula-2 could do except it was a bit more fragile and treacherous.