Mesa
Xerox PARC, 1977. System and application programming for proprietary hardware:
Alto, Dolphin, Dorado and Dandelion. Pascal-like syntax, ALGOL68-like semantics.
An early version was weakly typed. Mesa's modules with separately compilable
definition and implementation parts directly led to Wirth's design for Modula.
Threads, coroutines (fork/join), exceptions, and monitors. Type checking may be
disabled. Mesa was used internally by Xerox to develop ViewPoint, the Xerox
Star, MDE, and the controller of a high-end copier. It was released to a few
universitites in 1985. Succeeded by Cedar.
["Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al, Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)].
["Early Experience with Mesa", Geschke et al, CACM 20(8):540-552 (Aug 1977)].
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