Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!tower From: tower@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: book... (pascal vs. c vs. ada) Message-ID: <1703@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 00:44:36 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1703 Posted: Wed Aug 22 00:44:36 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 00:12:19 EDT Lines: 42 Nf-ID: #R:auvax:-43800:inmet:5800061:000:1620 Nf-From: inmet!tower Aug 13 15:41:00 1984 tektronix!moiram recently pointed this book out to me: -len tower UUCP: {ihnp4,harpo}!inmet!tower Intermetrics, Inc. INTERNET: ima!inmet!tower@CCA-UNIX.ARPA 733 Concord Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 661-1840 U.S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------