Early experience with Mesa

  • Authors:
  • Charles M. Geschke;James H. Morris, Jr.;Edwin H. Satterthwaite

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center;Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center;Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of an ACM conference on Language design for reliable software
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

The experiences of Mesa's first users—primarily its implementers—are discussed, and some implications for Mesa and similar programming languages are suggested. The specific topics addressed are: module structure and its use in defining abstractions, data-structuring facilities in Mesa, equivalence algorithm for types and type coercions, benefits of the type system and why it is breached occasionally, difficulty of making the treatment of variant records safe.