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A Guide to Modula-2

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  1. Kaare Christian

    1. Department of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

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Part of the book series: Monographs in Computer Science (MCS)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Moving to Modula-2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Modula-2 and Pascal

      • Kaare Christian
      Pages 3-29

    3. Data in Modula-2

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      Pages 30-70

    4. Control Flow in Modula-2

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      Pages 71-93

    5. Procedures

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      Pages 94-127

    6. Arrays

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      Pages 128-156

  3. Modules

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-158
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    2. Local MODULES

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      Pages 159-177

    3. Definition Modules

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      Pages 178-189

    4. Implementation Modules

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      Pages 190-203

    5. Common Global MODULES

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      Pages 204-215

    6. Desk Calculator with Variables and Assignments

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      Pages 216-231

  4. Advanced Data Types

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Enumerations

      • Kaare Christian
      Pages 235-249

    3. Sets

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      Pages 250-263

    4. Records

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      Pages 264-288

    5. Dynamic Data

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      Pages 289-305

    6. Procedure Variables

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      Pages 306-317

  5. Systems Programming

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 319-320
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About this book

Modula-2 is a simple yet powerful programming language that is suitable for a wide variety of applications. It is based on Pascal, a successful programming language that was introduced in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. During the 1970's Pascal became the most widely taught programming language and it gained acceptance in science and industry. In 1980 Dr. Wirth released the Modula-2 program­ ming language. Modula-2 is an evolution of Pascal. It improves on the successes of Pascal while adding the MODULE - a tool for ex­ pressing the relations between the major parts of programs. In ad­ dition Modula-2 contains low-level features for systems program­ ming and coroutines for concurrent programming. Programming languages are important because they are used to express ideas. Some programming languages are so limited that certain ideas can't be easily expressed. For example languages that lac k floating point arithmetic are inappropriate for scientific com­ putations. Languages such as Basic and Fortran that lack recur­ sion are unsuitable for text processing or systems programming. Sometimes a programming language is useable for a certain appli­ cation but it is far from ideal. A good example is the difficulty of writing large programs in pure Pascal. Pascal is a poor language for large jobs because it lacks facilities for partitioning a program viii Preface 6< ; ~~~~er 0\ Sheet Metal Tube /" 0 (to Affix Eraser to Shaft) ~ Hollow Wooden Shaft A Lead Core Figure 1. An exploded diagram. into separate pieces that can be developed independently.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

    Kaare Christian

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Guide to Modula-2

  • Authors: Kaare Christian

  • Series Title: Monographs in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4892-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9349-1Published: 27 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4892-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-603X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-5486

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 436

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

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