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potential of Oberon OS / language
mai:
Our guru Saint Nicholaus Wirth of ETHZ put together Oberon as a successor to Pascal.
Oberon can be run in a VM, Linux asf..
But I wasn't precisely overwhelmed. seems it is useable to switch a GPIO on a raspi, but that pretty much seems to be it. except to get a Ph.D. in compy science, what can Oberon be used for ? just to write messy documentation?
try do do anything that makes any sense in here:
https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/emu.html#FullDiskImage,1024,576
http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch
molly:
--- Quote from: mai on November 06, 2017, 09:03:33 am ---..., what can Oberon be used for ? just to write messy documentation?
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An OS perhaps ?
Or just writing software. In that regards i do not seem to fully understand your question. Every programming language has its merits...
Shame that things seem to have come to an halt, as further progress would have been interesting.
Leledumbo:
Despite its status as a research OS, Oberon is useful for common tasks, some things are just different (or missing, typically office suite) from common OS. It is also self hosted and is abstracted to be able to run on top of other OS instead of baremetal.
Ñuño_Martínez:
I've read Wirth's compiler book and I find Oberon quite confusing. Even Oberon/0 (the sub-set used to build the compiler) seems obscure to me. May be because it is too much different to [Object] Pascal, C and Forth. Also may be because I tried to translate all examples to Pascal to build my compiler/interpretor (with mixed results). Or because I never tried to learn Oberon seriously.
mai:
pro: only 16 machine code ops
con: no network code, just stuff to use a screen, keyboard and mouse.
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