<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 06:10, <<a href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca" target="_blank">peter@easthope.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> You can see a Hello world snippet here:<br>
> <br>
> <a href="https://bit.ly/2Mic0NN" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2Mic0NN</a><br>
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A click on Oberon-07 in the list of languages leads to <br>
<a href="https://tio.run/#oberon-07" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tio.run/#oberon-07</a> . Is there any harm in referring to that URL?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course not <a href="https://tio.run/#oberon-07" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tio.run/#oberon-07</a> is a perfect URL to refer to.</div><div><br></div><div>Like I said, tio.run is a site for sharing code snippets, the idea is that each snippet of Oberon code gets a unique URL automatically.</div><div>Because the generated URLs are quite long, you could use an URL shortener like <a href="https://bit.ly" target="_blank">https://bit.ly</a> to reduce noise in mailing lists, IRC etc.</div><div><br></div><div>It is useful when:</div><div><br></div><div>- you want to demonstrate an algorithm to someone else, or provide an adapation of an algorithm that has been shared with you<br></div><div>- someone is reading a book or paper that demonstrates Oberon code and wants to quickly try some constructs without installing an Oberon system (and learn to use it) or compiler</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Being able to instantly run and adapt it is key here.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I am aware that <a href="https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/">https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/</a> exists, but it is not useful for sharing code snippets or any of the reasons I provided above.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">--Erik<br></div></div>