[Oberon] Oberon language family and the master.

[Srinivas Nayak]

> But it all depends on your needs. So, what is the intention of your
> question?

I agree, languages have special purpose.
Pascal was for (system? or application?) programming.
Modula was for system programming.
Oberon is for system programming.
I would like to see here, how system programming languages evolve.
And how Wirthian languages differ from C and C++.
And what is the simple but not simpler set of features that a system programming languages need to have.
Basically my interest here is compare and contrast language features, needed vs not-needed features.

So here I got a doubt, which version of Oberon I should look at?
Oberon-7 or Active Oberon or Concurrent Oberon or ?

Or, do we propose to create our own language for our own purpose,
learning how these Oberon versions have been created for special needs?



With thanks and best regards,

Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/

On 01/22/2016 02:36 AM, Christian Demmer wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:24:18 +0530, Srinivas Nayak wrote:
>> So today, can we say, whatever is present in Oberon-7 is time tested;
>> and one doesn't need to add or remove anything from it;
>> and this is the state-of-the-art;
>> and is simple but not simpler?
>
>> If so, one wouldn't worry about
>> Oberon V,
>> Oberon X,
>> Active Oberon,
>> Action Oberon,
>> Object Oberon,
>> Concurrent Oberon
>> etc. etc.
>
> I personally would not agree. Oberon-07 is just the version of Oberon
> that fits best with Project Oberon 2013 edition. Beyond that and some
> embedded applications (Astrobe) I do not know of any further
> application. Oberon for the classic Oberon system and Oberon-2 and
> Active Oberon appear of much wider use.
>
> But it all depends on your needs. So, what is the intention of your
> question?
>
> Greetings, chris
> --
> Oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems
> https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon
>