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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
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
Ada is a far more verbose language and lacks Mesa's elegance. Is there a less opinionated way to say this? (Some people feel that...) - Eric 23:13, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I moved some text around to separate information about the language from that about languages it has influenced. I feel that this makes the article more focused and clear by putting the most relevant information at the beginning, and by not viewing Mesa as a mere historical footnote. RobLinwood 23:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
The article has a link to Cedar programming language, but Cedar programming language currently just redirects to Mesa programming language — oops! As someone who has been trying to find out more about Cedar for many years, I find this really frustrating. I guess the "right" solution is for someone to turn Cedar programming language into a real article. Does anyone reading this know enough about Cedar to start work? I'll gladly help. — Chris Chittleborough 10:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
The article currently says that
We've had similar claims in this article for a long, long time, but never had a cite for it. I suspect it's an urban myth, and so should be removed. Comments, please? CWC 13:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
To the person who recently edited this article from IP address 66.201.51.66:
Cheers, CWC 12:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
This article is lacking examples of Mesa code -- Sigmundur ( talk) 21:34, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
The Mesa language was also used on the early Docutech systems, which utilized Mesa processors. Yamex5 ( talk) 19:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Cedar was developed years before SPARC was, so a native SPARC compiler could hardly have been a feature. 69.201.168.196 ( talk) 03:00, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
"they hired a recent M.S. graduate from Colorado who had written his thesis on exception handling" A link to this thesis would be nice it it were available, and I'm sure the un-credited anonymous soul would not mine his or her name mentioned here. "Credit where due"? At the very least, a reference of some sort so that the quoted statement is not just rumor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.71.25.218 ( talk) 17:09, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
When trying to follow links to Cedar (programming language) which should take me to this page, the android Wikipedia app gives me an error, which I've not had before. The redirect does work in a browser, but maybe someone can spot something wrong with the redirect? Feydun ( talk) 10:28, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
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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
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
Ada is a far more verbose language and lacks Mesa's elegance. Is there a less opinionated way to say this? (Some people feel that...) - Eric 23:13, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
I moved some text around to separate information about the language from that about languages it has influenced. I feel that this makes the article more focused and clear by putting the most relevant information at the beginning, and by not viewing Mesa as a mere historical footnote. RobLinwood 23:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
The article has a link to Cedar programming language, but Cedar programming language currently just redirects to Mesa programming language — oops! As someone who has been trying to find out more about Cedar for many years, I find this really frustrating. I guess the "right" solution is for someone to turn Cedar programming language into a real article. Does anyone reading this know enough about Cedar to start work? I'll gladly help. — Chris Chittleborough 10:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
The article currently says that
We've had similar claims in this article for a long, long time, but never had a cite for it. I suspect it's an urban myth, and so should be removed. Comments, please? CWC 13:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
To the person who recently edited this article from IP address 66.201.51.66:
Cheers, CWC 12:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
This article is lacking examples of Mesa code -- Sigmundur ( talk) 21:34, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
The Mesa language was also used on the early Docutech systems, which utilized Mesa processors. Yamex5 ( talk) 19:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Cedar was developed years before SPARC was, so a native SPARC compiler could hardly have been a feature. 69.201.168.196 ( talk) 03:00, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
"they hired a recent M.S. graduate from Colorado who had written his thesis on exception handling" A link to this thesis would be nice it it were available, and I'm sure the un-credited anonymous soul would not mine his or her name mentioned here. "Credit where due"? At the very least, a reference of some sort so that the quoted statement is not just rumor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.71.25.218 ( talk) 17:09, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
When trying to follow links to Cedar (programming language) which should take me to this page, the android Wikipedia app gives me an error, which I've not had before. The redirect does work in a browser, but maybe someone can spot something wrong with the redirect? Feydun ( talk) 10:28, 7 March 2024 (UTC)