[Oberon] Trivialising formality considered harmful

[August Karlstrom]

John Drake wrote:
> 
> --- jan verhoeven <jan at verhoeven272.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Op Wednesday 15 March 2006 22:24 schreef August
>> > I want to be able to write portable programs and
>>I want to be able to 
>> > choose freely between text editors (presently
>>Emacs would be my choice).
>>
>>That rules out the XDS system.
> 
> 
> What rules out XDS?  Portable programs, or Emacs
> as a text editor?

Actually, the XDS system comes with a command line compiler (xc) so you 
can choose your own editor. But XDS is no serious alternative -- it's a 
finalized project, it's closed source and I have already found a bug in 
the compiler:

http://www.excelsior-usa.com/forum/index.php?topic=633.new;topicseen#new


August