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This is a port of Modula-3 release 3.5.3, from DEC Systems Research
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Center. Modula-3 is a modern compiled programming language designed
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for systems programming as well as large applications. Some notable
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features include:
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* A clean type system with good support for object-oriented
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programming.
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* A powerful module system.
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* Lightweight threads, fully integrated into the language and all of
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the libraries.
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* Generics.
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* Exceptions.
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* Automatic storage management by a multithreaded, incremental,
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generational garbage collector.
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* Guaranteed type safety, plus the ability to confine unsafe code
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behind safe interfaces.
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* Elegance and simplicity, even compared with less powerful
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languages such as C++ and Ada.
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* Ease of integration with existing C libraries.
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* A huge collection of runtime libraries, providing:
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- Text manipulation.
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- Generic containers (lists, sequences, tables, etc.).
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- Atoms and symbolic expressions.
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- An extensible stream I/O system.
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- Persistent objects.
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- Operating system interfaces.
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- Networking.
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- Very nice object-oriented graphics facilities, and some
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convenient tools for building GUIs.
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* A convenient browser.
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A wealth of information about Modula-3 can be found at:
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http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html
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This port includes patches for a number of bugs found since the release
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of DEC SRC's version 3.5.3.
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-- John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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