Mesa (programming language)

Mesa is a technology developed in the 1970s at Xerox PARC, imperative programming language. It is similar to the ALGOL programming languages ​​and has been used, among other things, to program the Xerox Alto, one of the first computer with a graphical user interface ( GUI) and later the Xerox Star workstation. The work environment Global View was developed with this programming language.

Because of this past, trained Mesa programmers Xerox normally also knew very well with the principles of the development of GUIs, network environments and other areas of computer technology, which Xerox has contributed to the progress of computer science. Although Mesa was a very advanced programming in its time, it was hardly used outside of Xerox. Nevertheless, they influenced the IT industry significantly. So Steve Jobs was the Xerox Alto, developed at the Mesa, very impressed, so the design of the user interface of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh computers had a significant impact, which ultimately led to the development of Microsoft Windows, which in 1985 had its launch.

  • Imperative programming language
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