SRC Research Report 3

On Extending Modula-2 for Building Large, Integrated Systems.

Paul Rovner, Roy Levin, John Wick.

This paper addresses some of the problems of using Modula-2 to develop large programs, that is, programs with more detail than can be managed effectively by one person. The primary weaknesses of Modula-2 for building large systems of concurrent applications that share data structures and code are discussed. A collection of language changes and extensions to strengthen Modula-2 for such applications are described. Experience using the extended language for a large software project suggests that it is good for the cooperative development of large, experimental programs that share memory.

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