Wikipedia: Mesa programming language/Talk

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: drj, I think there is an opportunity for a seperate page for the stack-based Xerox workstations such as the Dandelion (8010). As for the relationship between Ada and Mesa see [1].

: NickelKnowledge, People generally react this way - the connection does exist, see [2] for more details.

: -- Artistotle

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: This was passed to me as a piece of oral tradition while was at Xerox so thanks for encouraging me to track down the actual details -- Aristotle

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Well this is all very good. Someone wrote that cedar came before mesa, but http://www.parc.xerox.com/hist-lst.html claims it was the other way round, so I changed it. That also accords with my very vague 3rd or 4th info. Cedar was designed to interop more easily with C and Modula wasn't it? --drj

I wrote that Cedar came before Mesa. As a software developer and part of the Xerox' European SDD presence I knew Cedar as Xerox PARC's favourite form of Mesa and I believed that it preceded it. A good correction. -- Aristotle

Very interesting. No mention of Dorado (is that the name of a xerox workstation? I thought mesa was first implemented on it)? What is the meaning and relevance of the last paragraph, about Ada? --drj

It was the inspiration for Modula-2 when its author spent time with Xerox as an undergraduate. What? Niklaus Wirth was the author of Modula-2... and I think he was well past undergraduate by then! --NickelKnowledge

I have no problem with the connection, I was complaining about the undergraduate bit. --NK