Cedar
A superset of Mesa, from Xerox PARC, adding garbage collection, dynamic types
and a universal pointer type (REF ANY). Cedar is a large complex language
designed for custom Xerox hardware and the Cedar operating system/environment.
Data types are atoms, lists, ropes ("industrial strength" strings), conditions.
Multi-processing features include threads, monitors, signals and catch phrases.
It was used to develop the Cedar integrated programming environment.
["A Description of the Cedar Language", Butler Lampson, Xerox PARC, CSL-83-15
(Dec 1983)].
["The Structure of Cedar", D. Swinehart et al, SIGPLAN Notices 20(7):230-244
(July 1985)].
(1995-01-26)
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