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From: danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Re: Welcome to comp.lang.modula3
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.002652.10744@riacs.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 00:26:52 GMT
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In <1990Dec18.234527.15456@src.dec.com> muller@src.dec.com (Eric Muller) writes:

>Here is a reminder about the charter of this newsgroup.

>NAME:

>  comp.lang.modula3

>STATUS:

>  unmoderated

...
>    Modula-3 retains one of Modula-2's most successful features, the
>    provision for explicit interfaces between modules.  It adds objects
>    and classes, exception handling, garbage collection, lightweight
>    processes (or threads), and the isolation of unsafe features.

>Eric Muller.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>System Research Center - 130 Lytton Av. - Palo Alto, CA 94301 - (415) 853 2193

Hey,
    Come on you guys.  I'm continually appalled at the number of languages
that keep appearing. Hasn't anyone heard of MAINSAIL? All these features have
been available commercially in MAINSAIL for 10 years.  MAINSAIL stands for
Machine Independent SAIL. Where SAIL stands for Stanford Artificial
Intelligence Language (actually the L stands for memo L from the AI lab).

History: Stanford AI Lab => Feigenbaum's Heuristic programming project =>
XIDAK (formed to market MAINSAIL).

For more information, contact:

XIDAK, Inc.
3475 Deer Creek road
Building C
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(415) 855-9271

(I'm just a user. Since 1972).
--
Douglas G. Danforth   		    (danforth@riacs.edu)
Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS)
M/S 230-5, NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035