David_Michael_McCord@cup.portal.com (04/10/88)
In the Turbo Modula-2 written by Borland (but only available for use on Z80-compatible systems), extensions are available that greatly simplify the I/O. As you might expect, it is very Turbo-Pascal-like, with WRITE, READ etc., which take any data type and a variable number of arguments. It does make programming a lot simpler, but is definitely non-portable to any other Modula compiler I know of. Perhaps other modula enthusiasts would like to post notes describing their favorite compiler's extensions, or discuss how portable a given extension may be.