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Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?

From	Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
Date	2016-04-01 10:24 -0700
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Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> writes:
> I would prefer Modula-2, I did a lot of stuff in FST Modula back in
> the MSDOS days.  Sort of Pascal redone right(er)
> Oberon is worh a look too, it follows on from Modula.

from long ago and far away

Date: 10/11/83 19:30:53
From: wheeler

i'm going to order a copy of PC MODULA2 compilers from LOGITECH ...

Date: 02/07/84 08:52:10
From: wheeler

3 copies of modula2 showed up today ... but they are not the new
improved release 1.0 version.

Date: 04/16/84 09:06:36
From: wheeler

got three release 1 modula2 upgrades today

... snip ...

Took me four months to get the order and another two months to get the
release one upgrade.  However, modula2 compiler performance compared
poorly with turbo pascal, modula2 5line example program, took 3mins to
compile and one min to link.

Fall of 1983, palo alto science center published comparison for moudla2
and pascal/vs (which had a lot of enhancements not found in base
pascal). A big difference was modula2 "PROCESS", "NEWPROCESS" and
"TRANSFER" (for multiprogramming/multithreading). However, they did
pascal/vs library implementation of the features and used them to
implement moudla2 example programs.

The original mainframe pascal (that became pascal/vs) was done by the
los gatos vlsi tools group using metaware's TWS (later pascal/vs was
made available on both mainframe and rs/6000). There was also some
effort looking at using metaware's TWS to implement modula2 front-end
for the pascal/vs backend code generator.

from long ago and far away

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past posts mentioning metaware
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#20 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#66 Mainframe Spreadsheets - 1980's History
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#19 Beyond 8+3
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#52 Question about Unix "heritage"
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#71 What terminology reflects the "first" computer language ?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#42 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#30 First single chip 32-bit microprocessor
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#35 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#38 CAS and LL/SC
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#39 CAS and LL/SC
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#61 will there every be another commerically signficant new ISA?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#14 something like a CTC on a PC
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#0 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#1 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#33 Power5 and Cell, new issue of IBM Journal of R&D
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#8 Free to good home: IBM RT UNIX
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#14 Newbie question on table design
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#77 CLIs and GUIs
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#11 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of ?patents ?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#36 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#11 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#29 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#28 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#54 PL/I vs. Pascal
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#69 Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#32 computer bootlaces
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#20 Mainframes Warming Up to the Cloud
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#89 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#21 The simplest High Level Language
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#59 Teletypewriter Model 33
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#36 Quote on Slashdot.org
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#51 [Poll] Computing favorities
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#52 [Poll] Computing favorities

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