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From: rsutc@fornax.UUCP (Rick Sutcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula2 <-- Pacsal
Summary: Modula-2 use successful
Message-ID: <163@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 22:43:33 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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> In comp.lang.modula2 you write:
 
 >We are considering replacing Pascal with Modula2 as the language of
 >instruction in our introductory Computer Science courses and were
 >wondering (1) How many other schools have made this change? (2) How
 >has it worked out? Any response would be appreciated.

Trinity Western University in Ft. Langley British Columbia has used
Modula-2 for five years.  We have used Logitech's PC compiler (good)
and PCollier (bad service) and now use SemperSoft on MPW on the Mac.
The text is Sutcliffe (Merrill publishing).

I have been on sabbatical at the nearby (much larger) Simon Fraser University
this year.  Here, I am teaching their intro course, also using Sutcliffe (me)
and Sun's compiler.  (Good compiler, bad library)

I would never go back to Pascal for either teaching or writing
software.
Rick Sutcliffe