Re: Intro Modual-2 Text recommendations wanted

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From: Mike Feldman
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1987 22:39

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I have no big problems with the one from Modula Corp in Provo, Utah.
I haven't tried teaching freshmen from it. I guess the biggest
problem is that it has no integrated editor. But ModCorp will
allow you to copy and redistribute the compiler to students for a very
low fee (call them for details). The tutorial in the front of their
documentation is a reasonable discussion of Modula-2 amd libraries.

Configuring the compiler for a 2-floppy system is not a job for
a novice. What I have done is prepare a reasonable 2-floppy package
which I allow students to copy.

In both the Modula-2 and Ada worlds the compiler builders have
implicitly declared that their languages ain't for babies, by
building such poor student-oriented packages. Those of us who
want to teach real languages from CS1 forward have an up-hill
battle to fight.

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Subject: Re: Intro Modual-2 Text recommendations wanted
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