> How similar is modular-2 and pascal? I wish to learn pascal and have
> an old Modula-2 book from my uni days. The languages look similar but
> seeing I've only been using delphi for a week I don't what to confuse
> myself by studying a modular-2 book...

>> How similar is modular-2 and pascal? I wish to learn pascal and have
>> an old Modula-2 book from my uni days. The languages look similar but
>> seeing I've only been using delphi for a week I don't what to confuse
>> myself by studying a modular-2 book...

>Modula-2 is, for most intents and purposes, a superset of the original
>standard Pascal. You should notice though that many Pascal vendors (in
>particular Borland) have made extensions to the Pascal language. Those
>were sometimes inspired by Modula, but do not always have the same
>syntax (for example Modulas "modules" are called "units" in TP).
>Additionally, we have had a "new" Pascal ISO-standard for a couple of
>years now, which has taken aboard features from Modula-2, Modula-3 and
>Oberon as well. But you should have no trouble moving from one to the
>other, except the odd compiler error message, when you mixed up the
>syntax.