User talk:Esnickell2

Welcome...

Hello, Esnickell2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay. People who write things like

I include it here not as fact, but to guide others' search for citeable sources.

are exactly the sort of editors we want. Here are some pages that we recommend for new contributors:

I gather you already know about using ~~~~ to sign your name. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page (speedy response not guaranteed, sorry), or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again: welcome! CWC 22:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mesa (programming language)[edit]

I added an External Link to "A Grand Tour Of Cedar" to our Mesa (programming language) article.

I just noticed something I wrote on Talk: Mesa (programming language) back in 2007: "I'll try to expand the coverage of Cedar." But I haven't done anything about that ... too busy. Would you like to work on that yourself?

Cheers, CWC 22:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm probably too close to the source to function as a good editor, having worked for Xerox from 1984 to 1989, and then at PARC from 2000 to 2007. Specifically, I was working in Cedar and have worked with several of the 2nd-wave Cedar implementors (the 1st wave having left for DEC SRC before I came on the scene). I'd be happy to answer questions in this area, but have no knowledge of where any of this has been published. (Oh, and the "2" in Esnickell2 is because I can't remember the password for "Esnickell" and there seems to be no way to recover a username which was not attached to an email address. I've contributed here and there before.) Esnickell2 (talk) 21:07, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know about the PARC-to-SRC thing. Interesting. I wonder how much Cedar influenced Modula-3? Best wishes, CWC 15:13, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The stories I heard are that a chunk of PARC CSL followed Bob Taylor to DEC SRC, and that Modula-3 was designed by some of the same people who had been responsible for Cedar. Esnickell2 (talk) 17:23, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]