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Modula-3 is a systems programming language that descends from Mesa, Modula-2, Cedar, and Modula-2+. It adds objects and classes, exception handling, garbage collection, lightweight processes, and the isolation of unsafe features.

History

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+. There is also an obscure variant called simply Modula-3* that adds strong parallel processing features to the language.

OS/2 Implementations

SRC Modula 3 - Open source
Modula 3 Reboot - Open source

Text editors with Modula 3 support

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

DOS Implementations

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

Publications

G. Nelson (ed.): System Programming with Modula-3 - Prentice-Hall 1990, ISBN 0-13-590464-1
Harbison: Modula-3 - Prentice-Hall 1992, ISBN 0-13-596396-6

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
Luca Cardelli: Typeful Programming
Luca Cardelli, James Donahue, Lucielle Glassman, Mick Jordan, Bill Kalsow and Greg Nelson: The Modula-3 Report (Revised) - 1989
Emin G?un Sirer, Stefan Savage, Przemyslaw Pardyak, Greg P. DeFouw, Mary Ann Alapat & Brian N. Bershad: Writing an Operating System with Modula-3

Introductory material

Swaminathan Sankararaman and Bojan Durickovic: Modula-3 - CS 520 Final Report - 2008

Modula-3*

Ernst A. Heinz: MODULA-3*: An Efficiently compilable extension of Modula-3 for problem-oriented explicitly parallel programming

Links

Modula-3 Org - Info and links on the Modula 3 language
Elcomsoft: Modula-3; an annotated bibliography
USENET: comp.lang.modula3 - Very low volume

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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+. There is also an obscure variant called simply '''Modula-3*''' that adds strong parallel processing features to the language.
+'''Modula-3''' is a systems programming language that descends from Mesa, [[Modula-2]], Cedar, and Modula-2+. It adds objects and classes, exception handling, garbage collection, lightweight processes, and the isolation of unsafe features.
+==History==
+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+. There is also an obscure variant called simply '''Modula-3*''' that adds strong parallel processing features to the language.
 See also: [[Obliq]]