Cedar

A superset of Mesa, from Xerox PARC, adding garbagecollection, dynamic types and a universal pointer type (REF

ANY). Cedar is a large complex language designed for custom

Xerox hardware and the Cedar operating system/environment.

Data types are atoms, lists, ropes ("industrial strength"

strings), conditions. Multi-processing features include

threads, monitors, signals and catch phrases. It was

used to develop the Cedar integrated programming environment.

["A Description of the Cedar Language", Butler Lampson, Xerox

PARC, CSL-83-15 (Dec 1983)].

["The Structure of Cedar", D. Swinehart et al, SIGPLAN Notices

20(7):230-244 (July 1985)].

(1995-01-26)