Mesa is a general-purpose, strongly typed systems programming language developed at Xerox PARC in the 1970s, used to build the Xerox Alto and Xerox Star workstation software, including some of the earliest graphical user interface environments. Mesa introduced or popularized features that later became mainstream, including modular compilation with explicit interface and implementation modules, exception handling, and lightweight cooperative processes as a language-level concurrency primitive. Mesa's design directly influenced its own successor at PARC, Cedar, and indirectly influenced Modula-2 and later systems languages.
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SignificanceMesa and Cedar had a major influence on the design of other important languages such as Modula-2 and Java, and were an important vehicle for developing and disseminating the fundamentals of GUIs and networked environments. 1 Sources
1. Mesa (programming language), Wikipedia
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Mesa and Cedar had a major influence on the design of other important languages, such as Modula-2 and Java, and was an important vehicle for the development and dissemination of the fundamentals of GUIs, networked environments, and the other advances Xerox contributed to the field of computer science.
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