[Oberon] Non Oberon code in Oberon

[skulski at pas.rochester.edu]

>BOOLEAN consumes one byte

In the FPGA world you would want BOOL to be one bit. Furthermore, you
would want logic expressions to get translated to hardware (that is VHDL
or Verilog) and then be compiled to HW modules that would act as
coprocessors. Such a translation would be optional of course.

It is not a pipedream because Xilinx is doing just that with their High
Level Synthesis.

I am throwing this in for an eager grad student as a worthy project. I
think that NW once had a dream of unifying Oberon with LOLA, but it was
too far ahead of its time.

Wojtek
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2016 5:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] Non Oberon code in Oberon

On 1/19/2016 12:41 PM, Lars O wrote:
>   Wait, there's BOOLEAN? hmm..
Yes, but BOOLEAN consumes one byte.