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From: a1157@mindlink.UUCP (Reece Markowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Programming Questions!
Message-ID: <3202@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 00:45:09 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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Modula II is a lot like pascal in its constructs. It does, however, have
stronger typing.  In pascal you have used UNITS (correct?) well in modula II,
the INTERFACE is put in what is called a DEFINITION MODULE, and the
IMPLEMENTATION is placed correspondingly in a IMPLEMENTATION MODULE.  I like
this and think it better exemplifies the idea of
"information hiding".... ie... can you really say that pascal supports
information hiding when you can scroll down 10 lines to see its
implementation!!!
A good book?
well how about a pair of them...

for the technical stuff pick up "Introduction to Programming using Modula-2" by
Richard J. Sutcliffe
Merrill Publishing Company ISBN 0-675-20754-1

to accompany this is another great book actually used as a text book in
computing 201 in Simon Fraser University
"A Second Course In Computer Science With Modula-2"
By William I. Salmon and Daniel D. McCracken
John Wiley & Sons Pub. Co.    isbn 0-471-63111-6


hope this helps you.
Reece Markowsky
Computing Science
Simon Fraser University.