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Modula-3

Modula-3 is a programming language conceived as a successor to an upgraded version of Modula-2 known as Modula-2+. It has been influential in research circles (influencing the designs of languages such as Java, C#, Python and Nim), but it has not been adopted widely in industry. It was designed by Luca Cardelli, James Donahue, Lucille Glassman, Mick…

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Designed by
Luca Cardelli, James Donahue, Lucille Glassman, Mick Jordan; Bill Kalsow, Greg Nelson
Developers
DEC Olivetti elego Software Solutions GmbH
Family
Wirth/Modula
First appeared
1988; 38 years ago (1988)
OS
Cross-platform: FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin, SunOS
Paradigms
imperative, structured, procedural, modular, concurrent, object-oriented, generic

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Modula-3

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Modula-3

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related to Historical development · 38
Modula-3 → Acorn, Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Compiler, Acorn Computers Research Center, ARC, ARM, ARX, As, August, CAMEL, Cedar, Compilers, DEC, DEC Firefly, England, Euclid, Its, January, Maurice Wilkes, Mesa
related to External links · 26
Modula-3 → Caltech's CS2, Computerworld Interview, CS3, Dagenais, Development Mailing List, Distributed OO Applications, Draft Version, GitHubCM3 Implementation WebsiteModula-3 Home, January, Joseph Bergin, Language, Libraries, Luca Cardelli, May, Michael, Michel, Modula-3 Objects, Official, Oriented Data Abstraction, Page
related to Books · 20
Modula-3 → Agostino Cortesi Programmare, Algorithms, An Introduction, Carsten Weich, Chapter, DEC Systems Research Center, Greg Nelson, Harbison, Italian, Modula-3 Easy, Modula-3 The, Modula-3Laszlo Boszormenyi, None, Programming, Robert Sedgewick, Samuel, SRC, StyleRenzo Orsini, Systems Programming, There
related to Influences on other programming languages · 18
Modula-3 → Also, Although Modula-3, Architecture, Common Object Request Broker, CORBA, DEC-SRC M3, IIOP, Java's, Modula-3 Network Objects, Network Objects, Nim, Only, Probably, Python's, Remote Method Invocation, RMI, Sun, The Java
related to Implementations · 15
Modula-3 → Based, CAM3, CM3EzM3, Critical Mass CM3, CVSupHM3, DEC-SRC M3, DEC-SRC M3Polytechnique Montreal Modula-3, GCC, NPTLCM3, Olivetti Research Center, ORC, PM3, Several, SRC M3, This
related to Exceptions · 12
Modula-3 → Delphi, ENDconstruct, EXCEPT, EXCEPTblock, EXCEPTclause, Exception, EXIT, NET, One, Python, Scala, Visual Basic
related to Object-oriented · 8
Modula-3 → An, Exported, For, Many, Object, Object-oriented, Public, RECORDs
related to Multi-threaded · 7
Modula-3 → The, The Modula-3, TheLOCKstatement, TheMUTEXis, There, Thread, Unlocking
related to Dynamic allocation · 5
Modula-3 → DISPOSEis, In, NEW, There, TRACEDandUNTRACED
related to Projects using Modula-3 · 5
Modula-3 → CVSup, It, Obliq, Software, The SPIN

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Modula-3Designed byLuca Cardelli, James Donahue, Lucille Glassman, Mick Jordan; Bill Kalsow, Greg Nelson1.00infobox
Modula-3DevelopersDEC Olivetti elego Software Solutions GmbH1.00infobox
Modula-3FamilyWirth/Modula1.00infobox
Modula-3First appeared1988; 38 years ago (1988)1.00infobox
Modula-3OSCross-platform: FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin, SunOS1.00infobox
Modula-3Paradigmsimperative, structured, procedural, modular, concurrent, object-oriented, generic1.00infobox
Modula-3PlatformIA-32, x86-64, PowerPC, SPARC1.00infobox
Modula-3Preview release5.8.6 / July 14, 2010; 16 years ago (2010-07-14)1.00infobox
Modula-3ScopeLexical1.00infobox
Modula-3Stable release5.8.6 / July 14, 2010; 16 years ago (2010-07-14)1.00infobox
Modula-3Typing disciplinestrong, static, safe or if unsafe explicitly safe isolated1.00infobox
Modula-3Websitewww.modula3.org1.00infobox
Modula-3is aprogramming language conceived as a successor to an upgraded version of Modula-2 known as Modula-20.90text
Modula-3is aunion type0.90text

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