Modula-3
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
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
- Modula 3 Reboot - Open source - Current?
Text editors with Modula 3 support
- jEdit - Java based editor - Modula 3 syntax highlighting built in - Current.
DOS Implementations
- SRC Modula 3 - Open source - Discontinued
- M3PC-Klagenfurt - Open source - Discontinued
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
- Obliq
- Luca Cardelli: Obliq - A language with distributed scope - 1994
- Luca Cardelli: A Language with Distributed Scope - 1995
- Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: Distributed Applications in a Hypermedia Setting - 1995
- Luca Cardelli: Global Computation - 1996
- Luca Cardelli: Mobile Computation (Position Paper) - 1995 - Obliq related
- Luca Cardelli and Krishna A. Bharat: Migratory Applications - 1997
- Luca Cardelli and Rowan Davis: Service Combinators for Web Computing - 1997/9 - Obliq related.
- 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.