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One:    Modula-2 is probably the best stepping stone to ADA. As related 
elsewhere in this discussion some government agencies require ADA 
programs. I understand tat the ADA environments that exist on a Pc, are 
slow and unwieldy.
If however you write your program in M2, it can be translated to ADA with 
little difficulty. And the clever ADA stuff you don't get to use that 
way, probably should be avoided anyway!

Two:    Treat Modula-2 as a "Conceptual language". If I am writing C, I 
think in Modula, but write in C. The result is clearer than going 
straight to C. There is little that you can do in C, but not in M2, and 
most of it is the stuff that makes C programs harder to read.

Off hand the only things I miss in MS, compared with C, are 

        A := B
        FOR loops including "WHILE"
        
Think of computer languages like human languages. Every time you learn a 
new one, you learn a new way to say things, and a few new neat concepts, 
and ways to understand. But in the end, expressing the ideas in your head 
is  pretty similar in most of them. And it you are dumb and tongue-tied 
in one, you wont be better in another.