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Cedar(ID:1035/ced002)

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Country: United States
Designed 1983
Published: 1983

Xerox PARC. Superset of Mesa, adding garbage collection, dynamic types and a universal pointer type (REF ANY). A large complex language designed for custom Xerox hardware and the Cedar OS/environment. Data types: atoms, lists, ropes ("industrial strength" strings), conditions. Multiprocessing features include threads, monitors, signals and catch phrases. Used to develop the Cedar integrated programming environment.

People:

Butler Lampson

Related languages

Euclid	→	Cedar	Evolution of
Mesa	→	Cedar	Evolution of
Cedar	→	Modula-3	Derivation of

References:

Lampson, Butler (1983) Lampson, Butler "A Description of the Cedar Language", Xerox PARC, CSL-83-15 (Dec 1983).

Swinehart, D. et al, (1985) Swinehart, D. et al, "The Structure of Cedar" Abstract
in [LIPE 1985] (1985) SIGPLAN Notices 20(07) July 1985 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 85 symposium on Language issues in programming environments)

Skillicorn, David B. and Talia, Domenico (1998) Skillicorn, David B. and Talia, Domenico "Models and languages for parallel computation" pp123-169
in [ACM] (1998) [ACM] ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 30(2) June 1998
Resources

Programming languages and compilers by Butler Lampson Cedar (1979-82): With Jim Horning, Paul Rovner and others, I designed the extensions which produced Cedar by adding a safe subset, automatic storage deallocation, and runtime types to Mesa. I wrote a definition of Cedar semantics in terms of a much simpler kernel language, and a language manual [Cedar Language Reference Manual, Technical Report CSL-84-1, Xerox PARC, 1984].

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