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Welcome to the world of Modula-3! (TM)

As Sam Harbison writes in his book Modula-3,

Modula-3 is a member of the Pascal family of languages. Designed in the late 1980s at Digital Equipment Corporation and Olivetti, Modula-3 corrects many of the deficiencies of Pascal and Modula-2 for practical software engineering. In particular, Modula-3 keeps the simplicity of type safety of the earlier languages, while providing new facilities for exception handling, concurrency, object-oriented programming, and automatic garbage collection. Modula-3 is both a practical implementation language for large software projects and an excellent teaching language.

Bugs and patches, SRC Modula-3 release 3.5.3 (and later)
"Net Balance: A Network Objects Example" by Farshad Nayeri
"A Happy User Promotes SRC Modula-3" by Farshad Nayeri

Answers to frequently asked questions, introductory articles, and tutorials:

• Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ)
• Threads: A Modula-3 Newsletter
• "Introducing Modula-3" by Geoff Wyant, Linux Journal, December 1994.
• "Partial Revelation and Modula-3" by Steve Freeman, Dr. Dobb's Journal, October, 1995.
• "Building Distributed OO Applications: Modula-3 at Work" (draft) by Michel Dagenais.
• "Modula-3 Reference and Tutorial" by Stephen Schuab.
• "Trestle by Example" by Ryan Stansifer.

Additional information is available on the following topics:

• Modula-3 bibliography (Concise) (Annotated)
• comp.lang.modula3 (the Usenet news group)
• The Modula-3 language definition (chapter 2 of SPwM3)
• Modula-3 railroad (syntax) diagrams
• How to submit Modula-3 software to the FTP archive at ftp.vlsi.polymtl.ca

• SRC Modula-3 (an implementation for Unix, Windows/NT, and Windows 95)
• OS/2 3.5.3 (an implementation of version 3.5.3 for OS/2)
• M3forDOS (an implementation of version 2.11 for MSDOS)
• m3pc (another implementation of version 2.09 for MSDOS)

• m3tomif: A Modula-3 to Maker Interchange Format (MIF) Translator
• idlm3: An OMG IDL to Modula-3 Translator
• m2tom3: A Modula-2 to Modula-3 Translator
• m3build++: An enhanced version of m3build, the SRC Modula-3 make utility

• 1995 Meeting, OOPSLA 95, Austin, Texas (Summary) (Announcement)
• 1994 Meeting, OOPSLA 94, Portland, Oregon (Summary) (Announcement)

The Modula-3 annotated bibliography contains references related to Modula-3. Of particular interest are:

• "Systems Programming with Modula-3" (SPwM3), which describes the language and provides useful guidelines for using it. The book was edited by Greg Nelson and published by Prentice Hall. It is available in book stores.

• "Modula-3" by Sam Harbison, which provides a more tutorial overview.

• "Algorithms in Modula-3", Robert Sedgewick's classic text on algorithms with examples in Modula-3.

Several documents mentioned in the bibliography are also available in Postscript.

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