[Oberon] Help in using an Oberon systems.

[Aubrey.McIntosh at Alumni.UTexas.Net]

If you consider "Component Pascal" to be the current version of "Oberon"
then there is a very nice navigator indeed.

The Oberon community tends to have "snapshots" of the state of the art, and
all of them are loosely called "Oberon."
Many of us use several of these depending on what task is at hand.  At the
moment, I have 3 virtual machines running, one with Component Pascal, one
with "V4", and one with "A2"

The earlier snapshots have more and more primitive navigators as you go
back in time.  Each of them seems to be advanced for their own epoch.

Which "Oberon" environment are you running?


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Is there a source code navigator for Oberon .Mod files?
> Like, source-navigator available on Windows/Linux for C/C++ code.
>
> With thanks and best regards,
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
>
> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
>
>
> Bob Walkden wrote:
> >> From: Douglas G. Danforth [mailto:danforth at greenwoodfarm.com]
> >>
> >> On 12/17/2012 11:32 AM, Les May wrote:
> >>> by
> >>> using upper case keywords only he imposed an additional 'cognitive
> >> load'
> >>> on users because text written in upper case is more difficult to
> >>> comprehend (at least by me)
> >> Really?  I find the opposite to be true.
> >>
> > numerous studies[1] have shown that people find all-caps texts more
> > difficult to read than mixed case, but the tests were typically conducted
> > using texts significantly longer than any string of consecutive keywords
> > you're ever likely to read in a program.
> >
> > I find upper case keywords very useful with mixed case source text
> because
> > they provide navigation markers when scanning source code. In this way
> they
> > are rather like paragraph and section headings, which should normally
> differ
> > from the body text in 2 ways (at least according to Tufte) to be
> effective
> > in helping readers to scan.
> >
> > I was brought up as a COBOL programmer on mainframes, with a significant
> > amount of BASIC, when everything had to be in upper case. It was very
> > liberating when I first started using Modula-2 on PCs to be able to use
> > lower case. It also strengthened the muscles and increased the
> flexibility
> > of my pinky fingers as I had to learn to use the shift keys while typing;
> > this in turn proved invaluable when I started learning flamenco. So the
> > upshot is, Wirthian languages improve your rasgueado.
> >
> > B
> >
> > [1] the one I'm familiar with is "Type and layout: are you communicating
> or
> > just making pretty shapes" by Wheildon
> > <http://members.optusnet.com.au/guyallen/wheildon.pdf>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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