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References?

• pjmlp 4y ago
  References to what? Worth's quest to reduce Oberon's usability to a language without the libraries and related OS infrastructure that made it interesting to use in first place?
  • Rochus 4y ago
    References for your claim that "The whole point of Oberon was the Smalltalk ... Mesa/Cedar like experience." and "It is definitly true for Oberon OS System 3." I was at ETH until 1993 (and then again from 2000 to 2005 for my PhD) and have other information directly from the sources.
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      So now I have to find a magic paragraph, which as it seems won't change your mind anyway, because "I was there Luke", why bother life is too short.
      • Rochus 4y ago
        No magic, just facts, Luke; don't search too long; look at the introductory sections of "Project Oberon, The Design of an Operating System and Compiler" (ACM 1992), "The Oberon Companion, A Guide to Using and Programming Oberon System 3" (vdf 1998), and Gutknecht, J (1994): Oberon System 3: Vision of a Future Software Technology, Springer, Software.
        • pjmlp 4y ago
          Thanks for proving me right it would be a waste of time. See, this could have been a healthy discussion about Oberon, instead it went sour.
          • Rochus 4y ago
            Learning is never a waste of time.