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From: bony1!spencer@UUNET.UU.NET (Spencer Fine)
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Subject: Re: Programming Questions!
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Date: 18 Sep 90 17:57:41 GMT
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I work for a NY bank, and we've been using Modula2 as a production
quality language for 8 years.  It's hard to beat among procedural
programming languages.  The books we use for teaching new employees
are:
     (1) Programming in Modula-2
            Niklaus Wirth, Springer-Verlag

     (2) Modula-2 for Pascal Programmers
            Richard Gleaves, Springer-Verlag

     (3) Modula-2: A Software Development Approach
            Gary A. Ford + Richard S. Wiener, John Wiley & Sons

(1) is very terse (surprise, surprise), but quite well written.
(2) is not very well written, but contains some crutches for
    Pascal converts.
(3) is the book we use most often.  It is much longer than the
    other two, but offers clearer motivation and exposition of topics.

Let me know if I can help you further.
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