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It wasn't an either/or with Modula-2 and Oberon, Oberon itself didn't exist until three years later. But yeah, would've been cool to see that continue.
by Jtsummers 4y ago
It wasn't an either/or with Modula-2 and Oberon, Oberon itself didn't exist until three years later. But yeah, would've been cool to see that continue.
- musicale 4y agoPrecisely - the timing of Modula-2 was unfortunate given the awesomeness of the Oberon system which succeeded it. But Wirth's systems are terrific in general and highly educational. For example, I like Wirth's TRM/RISC5 (not to be confused with RISC-V from Berkeley et al.) processor designs[1] and the Lola hardware description language. So maybe a followup on Oberon/(Wirth)RISC/Lola/etc. would have been justified. [1] https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Lola/index.html https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Lola/index.html Having a system which is compact enough to understand from the gate level to the application level is remarkable. (I'm also a fan of nand2tetris, etc..) Sad that BYTE shut down for good in 2013.