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Modula-2 was designed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich as a systems implementation language for the operating system of the Lilith workstation, a project inspired by the Alto which Wirth had used during his sabbatical year at Xerox PARC in 1976. Modula-2 is a strongly typed language of the Pascal family and itits predecessors are Mesa and Pascal. In Modula-2, Wirth had addressed most of the criticisms ofagainst Pascal. The most important concepts introduced were modularity and information hiding but also concurrent programming. There are two main variants of Modula-2, the language described in Wirth's book "Programming in Modula-2" also known as PIM or classical Modula-2 and the revised and extended version produced by the ISO standards committee, known as ISO Modula-2.