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Geschke, C.M., Morris, J.R., Jr., Sutterthwaite, E.H., "Early experience with Mesa", Communications of the ACM, 20, 8, pp. 540-553, August 1977. Google
540 ;;Quote: the local structure of Mesa is like Pascal; its global structure is like Simula 67; used a lot
548 ;;Quote: instead of an UNSPECIFIED type, use RECAST to treat the same value differently QuoteRef: gescCM8_1977 ;;552 "It seems that we hardly ever change the variant of a record once it has been initialized
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