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Subject: Re: Re: book... (pascal vs. c vs. ada)
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 00:44:36 EDT
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tektronix!moiram recently pointed this book out to me:

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I've only skimmed the following book, but it might be helpful:

	The Programming Langugages
	Pascal, Modula, CHILL, Ada
	C.H. Smedema, P. Medema, M. Boasson
	Publisher: Prentice-Hall International

	ISBN 0-13-729756 4

>From the back of the book:

[This book] takes four modern languages and details their evolution and 
relation to one another.  Introduced in historical order, emphasis is 
put on the concepts of each language that are novel or different from the
language that precedes it.

Concise, informal and precise, the book looks at, with the help of many
examples, and compares the facilities provided by the four languages; it
does not teach the languages themselves.  New concepts are explained 
within the context of the relevant language.

The content of this book will interest various categories of readers,
including those who need a language for a specific purpose and want to
compare language capabilities;  programmers with a knowledge of older
high level languages who wish to extend and update that knowledge, and
computer science students wanting to see how theory can be put into 
practice where modern language design principles and programming 
concepts are concerned.

Hope this helps.

Moira Mallison
tektronix!moiram
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