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From: acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula-2 books
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Date: 10 Mar 88 18:58:03 GMT
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In article <995@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU> ss60w@sdcc7.ucsd.edu.UUCP (ss60w)
recommends

>"MODULA-2: A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
>APPROACH" by Gary A. Ford and Richard S. Wiener (John Wiley
>and Sons, 1986).

as a Modula-2 book.  I bought this one, and was quite disappointed
with it.  One learns a language by coding in it, but Ford & Wiener
do not present a stand-alone, compilable program until Chapter 12!
I ended up checking Wirth's book and one other out of the library.
Both have their faults, but at least Wirth gives you a working
example program on p. 23.

Stephen Walton, representing myself		swalton@solar.stanford.edu
Cal State, Northridge				rckg01m@calstate.BITNET