Modula-3 Concise Bibliography

The annotated Modula-3 bibliography has over 50 entries. This page is an attempt at a more concise list of essential Modula-3 references organized by topic. The links on this page are pointers to the annotated bibliography.

Books

• Systems Programming with Modula-3, Nelson, 1991.
• Modula-3, Harbison, 1992.
• Algorithms in Modula-3, Sedgewick, 1993.
• Programming with Modula-3, Boeszoermenyi & Weich, 1995.

Overview Articles

• Introducing Modula-3, Wyant, 1994.
• A Happy User Promotes SRC Modula-3, Nayeri, 1996.
• Modula-3, Harbison, 1992.
• Safe Programming with Modula-3, Harbison, 1992.
• Modula-3, Vixie, 1992, 2014.

Documentation of Modula-3 Interfaces

• Some Useful Modula-3 Interfaces, Horning, Kalsow, McJones, & Nelson, 1993.
• Network Objects, Birrell, Nelson, Owicki, & Wobber, 1994.
• Trestle Reference Manual, Manasse & Nelson, 1991.
• VBTkit Reference Manual: A toolkit for Trestle, Brown & Meehan.
• The FormsVBT Reference Manual, Brown & Meehan.
• Obliq-3D Tutorial and Reference Manual, Najork, 1994.

Introductory Programming Articles

• Modula-3 Reference and Tutorial, Schaub.
• Net Balance: A Network Objects Example", Nayeri.
• Building Distributed OO Applications: Modula-3 Objects at Work, Dagenais, 1995.
• Partial Revelation and Modula-3, Freeman, 1995.
• Initialization of Object Types, Nelson, 1995.
• Trestle Tutorial, Manasse & Nelson, 1992.
• Trestle by Example, Stansifer, 1994.

Modula-3 Ports

• Using Modula-3 Under OS/2, Whimster, 1996.

Systems Written in Modula-3

• The Juno-2 Constraint-Based Drawing Editor, Heydon & Nelson, 1994.
• Zeus: A System for Algorithm Animation and Multi-View Editing, Brown, 1992.
• Writing an Operating System with Modula-3,
  Sirer, Savage, Pardyak, DeFouw, & Bershad, 1995.
• The Whole Program Optimizer, Diwan, 1995.

Parallel Programming

• An Introduction to Programming with Threads, Birrell, 1989.
• Synchronization Primitives for a Multiprocessor: A Formal Specification,
  Birrell, Guttag, Horning, & Levin, 1987.

Garbage Collection

• Compacting Garbage Collection with Ambiguous Roots, Bartlett, 1988.
• Distributed Garbage Collection for Network Objects,
  Birrell, Evers, Nelson, Owicki, & Wobber, 1993.

Comparisons to Other Languages

• A Comparison of Modula-3 and Oberon-2, Boeszoermenyi, 1993.
• A Comparison of Object-Oriented Programming in Four Modern Languages,
  Henderson and Zorn, 1993.