KSPROUL@RUTGERS.ARPA (08/05/84)
Could someone recommend a book that compares the pros and cons of different languages i.e. pascal vs C vs fortran etc.. A friend who knows fortran wants to find out what the advantages/ disadvantages of the other languages are.. Thanks Keith Sproul Ksproul@Rutger.arpa -------
Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA (08/06/84)
From: Sam Hahn <Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA> The new magazine: Computer Language may have the types of articles you are interested in (comparison of C, Pascal, Fortran, etc.) They have just begun publication with the July issue, and the next is scheduled for October. I'll get the address for you tomorrow, unless someone already has it. -------
SHahn@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (08/07/84)
From: Sam Hahn <SHahn@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA> Contact "Computer Language" magazine at: CI Publications, Inc. 131 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 957-9353 Titles of the first issue are: - BASIC becomes a structured language - Programming in the Unix environment - Bubble sort, Insertion sort, and Quicksort compared - Improve your programming with structured techniques - COBOL: pride and prejudice - Exploring Ada and Modula-2 My hopes are that they will not limit themselves to these traditional-style languages, and expand to cover Prolog, Lisp, OPS, APL, and others, but I'm willing to wait before I pass judgment (on whether I renew my subscription...) -------
khasin@auvax.UUCP (Khasin Teow) (08/08/84)
there is a book just came out recently: "Comparing & Assessing programming languages; ADA, C and Pascal" by Feuer that might be of interest to you. I personally haven't got it yet but is interested in ordering one (from Cucumber bookshop).
tower@inmet.UUCP (08/22/84)
tektronix!moiram recently pointed this book out to me:
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I've only skimmed the following book, but it might be helpful:
The Programming Langugages
Pascal, Modula, CHILL, Ada
C.H. Smedema, P. Medema, M. Boasson
Publisher: Prentice-Hall International
ISBN 0-13-729756 4
>From the back of the book:
[This book] takes four modern languages and details their evolution and
relation to one another. Introduced in historical order, emphasis is
put on the concepts of each language that are novel or different from the
language that precedes it.
Concise, informal and precise, the book looks at, with the help of many
examples, and compares the facilities provided by the four languages; it
does not teach the languages themselves. New concepts are explained
within the context of the relevant language.
The content of this book will interest various categories of readers,
including those who need a language for a specific purpose and want to
compare language capabilities; programmers with a knowledge of older
high level languages who wish to extend and update that knowledge, and
computer science students wanting to see how theory can be put into
practice where modern language design principles and programming
concepts are concerned.
Hope this helps.
Moira Mallison
tektronix!moiram
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