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This depends on if you see Oberon-07 as a different "version" of Oberon or as a different dialect belonging to the same family. Personally i see it as a differe
by Crinus 7y ago
This depends on if you see Oberon-07 as a different "version" of Oberon or as a different dialect belonging to the same family. Personally i see it as a different dialect instead of being the same language exactly because it removes functionality and isn't compatible with it.
It may not seem like a big difference, but it becomes more apparent when you consider how different all the Pascal dialects that are out there - some even from Niklaus Wirth himself - are.
Also IMO languages should not break backwards compatibility.
- pjmlp 7y agoFor me the best version of it was Active Oberon, but I guess Wirth wouldn't agree given its pursuit for minimalism. Also I doubt he would bother to any further updates to Oberon-07 (2016 rev). Most likely busy with other matters nowadays.
- atombender 7y agoWirth — at the age of 85, no less! — is actively working on Oberon stuff, like the compiler. Here's his "news" file, which is up to date as of May 31, 2019: http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/news.txt http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/news.txt
- pjmlp 7y agoOh! Thanks for the heads up.