Editing Modula-3 (section)

==Influences on other programming languages==
Although Modula-3 did not gain mainstream status, several parts of the DEC-SRC M3 distribution did. Probably the most influential part was the Network Objects library, which formed the basis for Java's first Remote Method Invocation (RMI) implementation, including the network protocol. Only when Sun moved from the [[Common Object Request Broker Architecture]] (CORBA) standard to the [[General Inter-ORB Protocol|IIOP based protocol]] was it dropped. The Java documentation on [[Garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collection]] of remote objects still refer to the pioneering work done for Modula-3 Network Objects.<ref>[http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/platform/rmi/spec/rmi-arch4.html ''Garbage Collection of Remote Objects''], Java Remote Method Invocation Documentation for Java SE 8.</ref>  Python's implementation of classes was also inspired by the class mechanism found in C++ and Modula-3.<ref>[https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#classes ''Classes''], Official Python Documentation.</ref>
Also the language [[Nim (programming language)|Nim]] makes use of some aspects of Modula-3, such as [[#Dynamic allocation|traced vs untraced]] pointers.