Some information may also exist in other subdirectories of "pdf/xerox".
There have been many references to Mesa in the research articles and the books published towards the end of the seventies and during the eighties, but those are hard to find today, as most of them may have not been digitized. Even if they were digitized, it is hard to search through them to find the relevant documents, because you would not know from the title whether Mesa is also discussed along with other programming languages.
In general, bitsavers.org is probably the most useful Internet resource about old computing hardware and software, because no secondary literature matches the original manuals of the computer vendors, which in the distant past had an excellent quality, unlike today.
Ada provides many features of Mesa, but not all of them and I regret that some Mesa features are missing from the languages that are popular today.
The loops with double exits of Python (i.e. with "else") have been inspired by Mesa, but they provide only a small subset of the features available in Mesa loops.
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The most useful information is preserved at:
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/mesa/
Some information may also exist in other subdirectories of "pdf/xerox".
There have been many references to Mesa in the research articles and the books published towards the end of the seventies and during the eighties, but those are hard to find today, as most of them may have not been digitized. Even if they were digitized, it is hard to search through them to find the relevant documents, because you would not know from the title whether Mesa is also discussed along with other programming languages.
In general, bitsavers.org is probably the most useful Internet resource about old computing hardware and software, because no secondary literature matches the original manuals of the computer vendors, which in the distant past had an excellent quality, unlike today.
Ada provides many features of Mesa, but not all of them and I regret that some Mesa features are missing from the languages that are popular today.
The loops with double exits of Python (i.e. with "else") have been inspired by Mesa, but they provide only a small subset of the features available in Mesa loops.