> On Sep 11, 1:06 pm, James Kanze <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:

> At this point, I would strongly recommend "Programming Tools in
> Pascal", by Kernighan and Plauger. It's fairly dated, and its
> examples use Pascal syntax. (But they are basically C
> programs---the authors obviously prefer C, and use Pascal in a
> very C-like way. But when the book was written, C was still a
> small, niche language, little known outside of AT&T, and so not
> a reasonable choice for such a book.) It will teach you a lot
> about the larger picture when developing real small programs,
> just rewriting the examples in C++ should teach you something,
> and doing the exercises even more. And I don't know of anything
> better which has been written since.

since you praise it so much, so I checked it. I think you meant
"Software Tools in Pascal" :
http://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Pascal-Brian-Kernighan/ dp/0201103427/ref=sr_1_1/104-5544386-5333562?ie=UTF8&s=b ooks&qid=1189519574&sr=8-1

right ?