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From: rutgers!wsl.dec.com!haynes
Subject:      Re: Mesa
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Rion Cassidy writes

> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>When I first came to grad school, and began writing C code again, I
>>was unexpectedly disappointed.  I had grown used to a Modula-II like
>>language (MESA).  Some of the things that really bothered me about C
>>were:
>
>[complaints deleted]
>
>You didn't say where you learned Mesa, but since Xerox is the only
>place that uses it, I'd assume you came from there.
>
>Your comments are interesting because when I interveiwed with Xerox
>they said that Mesa was more like C than Pascal or M-2.
>
>Rion Cassidy
>rion@wdl1.arpa

As a former member of the Xerox Mesa Group, I'd like to know who told
you that! I want to laugh in their face. Modula-2 owes quite a bit to a
sabbatical that Niklaus Wirth spent at Parc. Modula-2 is at least a
nephew to Mesa, if not a direct decendant. Mesa's relationship to "C"?
Hostile? Nonexistant? I'm struggling for the appropriate word. Perhaps
"imagined" or "hallucinated" best describes their relationship.

    Charles "give-me-back-my-SIGNALs-and-MONITORs"  Haynes