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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.

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

Elcomsoft: Modula-3; an annotated bibliography
G. Nelson (ed.): System Programming with Modula-3 - Prentice Hall 1990, ISBN 0-13-590464-1
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.
USENET: comp.lang.modula3 - Very low volume

Standards

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

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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.
-;Obliq
+See also: [[Obliq]]
-Obliq is an interpreted domain specific programming language that is shipped with later versions of the Modula-3 System. It is intended to be used to program web "agents" (in a much wider understanding than agents are used in normal computer speak), in other words a utility programming language for the web rather than a scripting language of any sort and is in this reminiscent of '''WebL''' ([[Oberon]] variant).
 ==OS/2 Implementations==
-* [[SRC Modula 3]] - Open source - Discontinued
+* [[SRC Modula 3]] - Open source
-* Modula 3 Reboot - Open source - Current?
+* Modula 3 Reboot - Open source
 ==Text editors with Modula 3 support==
-* [[jEdit]] - Java based editor - Modula 3 syntax highlighting built in - Current.
+* [[jEdit]] - Java based editor - Modula 3 syntax highlighting built in
 ==DOS Implementations==
-*[[SRC Modula 3]] - Open source - Discontinued
+*[[SRC Modula 3]] - Open source
-*M3PC-Klagenfurt - Open source - Discontinued
+*M3PC-Klagenfurt - Open source
 ==Publications==
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 ;Introductory material
 * Swaminathan Sankararaman and Bojan Durickovic: [http://pub.bojand.org/modula3.pdf Modula-3 - CS 520 Final Report] - 2008
-;Obliq
-* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/ObliqPaper.A4.pdf Obliq - A language with distributed scope] - 1994
-* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Obliq.A4.pdf A Language with Distributed Scope] - 1995
-* Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/DistributedApps.A4.pdf Distributed Applications in a Hypermedia Setting] - 1995
-* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/GlobalComputation.A4.pdf Global Computation] - 1996
-* Luca Cardelli: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/MobileComputationPosition.pdf Mobile Computation (Position Paper)] - 1995 - Obliq related
-* Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Migration.A4.pdf Migratory Applications] - 1997
-* Luca Cardelli and Rowan Davis: [http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/ServiceCombinators.US.pdf Service Combinators for Web Computing] - 1997/9 - Obliq related.
 ;Modula-3*