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From: sritacco@hpbsla.HP.COM (Steve_Ritacco)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Xerox PARC's Cedar
Message-ID: <460002@hpbsla.HP.COM>
Date: 16 May 89 22:36:38 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Boise R & D Lab
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If Cedar is really going public domain, I want to know about it too!
Cedar started out as Mesa, the implementation language of ViewPoint
and the Star software (among other things).  It is a derivative of
Pascal but always quoted as being "industrial strength".  When Mesa
became Cedar, certain features were added.  A data type called "ropes",
a generic pointer type (ref. any), and a run time garbage collection
system.  The name Cedar is also used for the entire programming/
productivity environment built around Cedar.  If you want more info
about Cedar try looking through the past few years of ACM Transactions on
Programming languages.

Hope this is of some help!