A Guide to Modula-2 - Kaare Christian

A Guide to Modula-2

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Buch | Softcover
436 Seiten
2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4612-9349-1 (ISBN)
53,49 inkl. MwSt
Modula-2 is a simple yet powerful programming language that is suitable for a wide variety of applications. It is based on Pascal, a successful programming language that was introduced in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth. During the 1970's Pascal became the most widely taught programming language and it gained acceptance in science and industry. In 1980 Dr. Wirth released the Modula-2 program­ ming language. Modula-2 is an evolution of Pascal. It improves on the successes of Pascal while adding the MODULE - a tool for ex­ pressing the relations between the major parts of programs. In ad­ dition Modula-2 contains low-level features for systems program­ ming and coroutines for concurrent programming. Programming languages are important because they are used to express ideas. Some programming languages are so limited that certain ideas can't be easily expressed. For example languages that lac k floating point arithmetic are inappropriate for scientific com­ putations. Languages such as Basic and Fortran that lack recur­ sion are unsuitable for text processing or systems programming. Sometimes a programming language is useable for a certain appli­ cation but it is far from ideal. A good example is the difficulty of writing large programs in pure Pascal. Pascal is a poor language for large jobs because it lacks facilities for partitioning a program viii Preface 6< ; ~~~~er 0/ Sheet Metal Tube /" 0 (to Affix Eraser to Shaft) ~ Hollow Wooden Shaft A Lead Core Figure 1. An exploded diagram. into separate pieces that can be developed independently.

I Moving to Modula-2.- 1 Modula-2 and Pascal.- 2 Data in Modula-2.- 3 Control Flow in Modula-2.- 4 Procedures.- 5 Arrays.- II Modules.- 6 Local MODULES.- 7 Definition Modules.- 8 Implementation Modules.- 9 Common Global MODULES.- 10 Desk Calculator with Variables and Assignments.- III Advanced Data Types.- 11 Enumerations.- 12 Sets.- 13 Records.- 14 Dynamic Data.- 15 Procedure Variables.- IV Systems Programming.- 16 TYPE Relaxation.- 17 Programming Hardware.- 18 Coroutines.- 19 Device Drivers.- Appendices.- I. Modula-2’s Reserved Words.- II. Modula-2’s Standard Identifiers.- III. Modula-2’s Standard Functions.- IV. Standard PROCEDURES from SYSTEM.- V. Standard Coroutine PROCEDURES.- VI. Legal Modula-2 Operations.- VII. Strict TYPE Compatibility.- VIII. Assignment TYPE Compatibility.- IX. The ASCII Character Set.- X. Implementation Notes.- XI. Syntax Diagrams.- Modules.- Procedures.- Types.- Declarations.- Constants.- Variables.- Operators.- Statements.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.12.2012
Reihe/Serie Monographs in Computer Science
Zusatzinfo 11 Illustrations, black and white; XIX, 436 p. 11 illus.
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
Informatik Theorie / Studium Compilerbau
ISBN-10 1-4612-9349-9 / 1461293499
ISBN-13 978-1-4612-9349-1 / 9781461293491
Zustand Neuware
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