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Oberon was my first programming language, taught by Jürg Gutknecht himself. One week, our home assignmend was "write your own file system". At first, I thought
by Hermel 11y ago
Oberon was my first programming language, taught by Jürg Gutknecht himself. One week, our home assignmend was "write your own file system". At first, I thought that would be impossible to do in such a short time. However, it turned out to be not that hard thanks to the clean and simple design of the Oberon operating system.
- k__ 11y agoI only heard from fellow students about it. Some of them changed universities explicitly because programming was taught with Oberon. They don't wanted to waste time with a language that wouldn't give them a good job after university. At the university where I did my first degree, we learned Java, C/C++ and PHP. Back in the days I thought this was a good thing, because I could use this knowledge directly at work. But at the second university I got an introduction to SmallTalk, which blew my mind. Now I know the value of looking into alternative programming languages once in a while.
- pjmlp 11y agoI got to learn it while at university in Lisbon, when looking into stuff for compiler design. As I refer on a sibling post, it opened my mind to systems programming with GC enabled languages, specially interesting when one thinks how the desktop computers looked in the mid-90's. A decade later I got to enjoy a talk from Niklaus and Jürg at CERN, but Oberon was already on the way out.