Title: Great language, horrible book
Product review: Modula-3 is one of the great milestones in programming language design.It is not, as one of the reviewers of this book has said,a language whose deficiencies were corrected by C++.On the contrary, Modula-3 was developed after C++ (in the late 80s) andin fact corrects many of the deficiencies of that language. Manyof the features of Java and C# were lifted more or less intactlyfrom Modula-3, and the designers of Java have regretted thatthey didn't lift more, as they have had to add generics later.That being said, this is a terrible book. It is poorly organizedand poorly written.Greg Nelson's "Systems Programming with Modula-3" is the best book, and most of it is available forfree on the Web. Harbison's "Modula-3" is a good introductionfor someone who just wants to know how to write basic programsin the language. Unfortunately neither of these books is inprint any longer...
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