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One of the few languages out there designed as a systems language from the outset. Originally developed by Acorn USA an operating system development tool and then called Modula-2+, it added multitasking, threading and multi programming features to the Modula-2 programming language, but M2 itself is a development of Pascal by its original author and adds separately compiled modules, stricter & clearer syntax and a host of system programming additions to Pascal in addition to a general clean up of the language features. Modula 3 is a development that adds memory management (garbage collection), type & generic safety features, generic programming, better exception handling and object-oriented extensions to Modula-2+.

Obliq

Obliq is a domain specific programming language that is shipped with later versions of the Modula-3 System.

A list of OS/2 implementations of Modula-3

SRC Modula 3 - Open source - Discontinued
Modula 3 Reboot - Open source - Current?

OS/2 text editors with Modula 3 support

jEdit - Java based editor - Modula 3 syntax highlighting built in - Current.

A list of DOS implementations of Modula-3

SRC Modula 3 - Open source - Discontinued
M3PC-Klagenfurt - Open source - Discontinued

Publications

Joseph Bergin: Object-Oriented Data Abstraction in Modula-3 - 1997
Michel R. Dagenais: Building Distributed OO Applications: Modula-3 Objects at Work - Draft Version - 1997
Luca Cardelli, Jim Donahue, Mick Jordan, Bill Kalsow and Greg Nelson: The Modula-3 Type System - In PDF format
Luca Cardelli: Typeful Programming - In PDF format
Luca Cardelli, James Donahue, Lucielle Glassman, Mick Jordan, Bill Kalsow and Greg Nelson: The Modula-3 Report (Revised) - In PDF format - 1989

Obliq

Luca Cardelli: Obliq - A language with distributed scope - In PDF format - 1994.
Luca Cardelli: A Language with Distributed Scope - In PDF format - 1995.
Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: Distributed Applications in a Hypermedia Setting - In PDF format - 1995.
Luca Cardelli: Global Computation - In PDF format - 1996.
Luca Cardelli: Mobile Computation (Position Paper) - In PDF format - 1995 - Obliq related.
Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: Migratory Applications - In PDF format - 1997
Luca Cardelli and Rowan Davis: Service Combinators for Web Computing - In PDF format - 1997/9 - Obliq related.

Tutorials and other learning material

Links

Modula-3 Org - Info and links on the Modula 3 language.

USENET

comp.lang.modula3 - Very low volume - Go to the Google groups version if you or your ISP are newsgroup challenged in some way.

Standards

The revised version of the original Modula-3 report and the associated paper below
Some useful Modula-3 interfaces.

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-* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/ObliqPaper.A4.pdf Obliq - A language with distributed scope] - In PDF format - 1994
+* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/ObliqPaper.A4.pdf Obliq - A language with distributed scope] - In PDF format - 1994.
+* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Obliq.A4.pdf A Language with Distributed Scope] - In [[PDF]] format - 1995.
+* Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/DistributedApps.A4.pdf Distributed Applications in a Hypermedia Setting] - In PDF format - 1995.
+* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/GlobalComputation.A4.pdf Global Computation] - In PDF format - 1996.
+* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/MobileComputationPosition.pdf Mobile Computation (Position Paper)] - In PDF format - 1995 - Obliq related.
+* Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Migration.A4.pdf Migratory Applications] - In PDF format - 1997
+* Luca Cardelli and Rowan Davis: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/ServiceCombinators.US.pdf Service Combinators for Web Computing] - In PDF format - 1997/9 - Obliq related.
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