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C++ as Structured Programming: An Historical Perspective

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Migrating from Pascal to C++

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C++ can be learned as a structured object-oriented programming language, and can be particularly well learned that way by the Pascal programmer.

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Merritt, S.M., Stix, A. (1997). C++ as Structured Programming: An Historical Perspective. In: Migrating from Pascal to C++. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1902-6_1

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