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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:10:01 -0700, Richard Riehle
<richard@adaworks.com> wrote:

>At several bookstores, I even saw books on Pascal, Modula-3,
>and other marginal languages.

As far as I'm aware, Pascal is still a common teaching language. Given
that Modula-3 is similar but with the modular stuff built-in I guess
that is also used to teach. From what I remember of Modula-2, it was a
much easier progression to that from Pascal than to Ada.