[Oberon] A new dialect? Oberon+ (OBX)

Chris Burrows cfbsoftware at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 00:51:14 CEST 2021


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:59 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 14:37, Diego Sardina <dsar at eml.cc> wrote:
> >
> > This is not a dialect but a whole new language.
> >
> > The author should use a new name, not Oberon.
> >
> > He implemented all those features that programmers love, ignoring all implications they may cause.
> > Just for example: Why enumeration? Did they find a solution for the problems they may cause in separate compilation?
>
> This is an interesting take.
>
> I do not know if the Oberon+ author, Rochus Keller, is on this list.
>
He certainly was here - he posted some 30-odd messages in 2020 e.g.

http://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2020/013810.html

However, he has been quiet this year.

Cheers,
Chris


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