cjlabrie@cs.ruu.nl (Jan Labrie) (01/08/91)
Could anyone reading this newsgroup supply a good pointer to documentation on modula3 ? Any book or article describing modula3 completely is ok. Jan Labrie E-Mail : labrie@cs.ruu.nl
gnelson (Greg Nelson) (01/08/91)
Brian Guenter and Jeff Templon point to the terseness of the Modula-3 specification and ask if there is any documentation that is more "user-oriented". I afraid there's not much yet; but more is on the way. Sam Harbison's article in the November 1990 issue of BYTE contains a very readable overview together with a few example programs. I believe that reprints of the article are available from Pine Creek Software (840 Canerbury Lane, Pittsburgh PA 15232). I know of three books on Modula-3 in progress, one by Sam Harbison. The one I'm editing will be in the bookstores in about three months; it includes the language specification in its current terse style, but also includes several chapters written in a more expansive style. Research report SRC-53, by Mark Brown and me is available from DEC Systems Research Center, 130 Lytton Ave. Palo Alto, CA. It contains an extended example program implementing I/O streams, but it is in a terse style similar to the report.