 Mesa was the system programming language of the later Xerox Star workstations, and for the GlobalView desktop environment.Xerox PARC later developed Cedar, which was a superset of Mesa.Mesa and Cedar had a major influence on the design of other important languages, such as Modula-2 and Java, and was an important vehicle for the development and dissemination of the fundamentals of GUIs, networked environments, and the other advances Xerox contributed to the field of computer science.