[Oberon] On Oberon Sources

[Srinivas Nayak]

Dear Bob,

I went through the book some weeks ago.
Would you kindly point me to some chapter or section number for my re-read?


With thanks and best regards,

Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

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

On 03/31/2016 10:13 PM, Bob Walkden wrote:
> Have you read Reiser's book about the Oberon System? It is explained in there.
>
> B
>
>> On 31 Mar 2016, at 17:37, Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Many thanks Dieter for your quick reply...
>>
>>
>> True that converting files to ascii files is simple.
>> But when we say, Oberon is simple, we should have used plain ascii files as a minimum.
>> In a minimal system we generally need a couple of .Obj files, a couple of .Mod files,
>> a couple of .Tool files and .Text files.
>> I feel, except .Obj files rest all could have been plain ascii files.
>> I want to understand why "that is not the case" in Oberon, where as to my knowledge, "that is the case" in
>> so called complex Linux!
>> Any issue with plain ascii files in Oberon? Performance wise? Processing/parsing wise? Storage/retrieval wise?
>>
>> I think, in Linux we see a couple of executable files (corresponding to .Obj files) (not plain ascii)
>> a couple of .C and .H files (corresponding to .Mod files) (plain ascii)
>> a couple of .sh files (corresponding to .Tool files) (plain ascii)
>> a couple of .txt (corresponding to .Text files) (plain ascii).
>>
>> Obviously, Oberon is much richer.
>> So we can have well formatted text files.
>> That feature we can have, just to show the richness of Oberon.
>> But not as a minimum requirement.
>>
>> Still I think, plain ascii text files are "simple" than formatted text files.
>> Or, just not to make things "simpler" we used formatted text files everywhere (.Mod .Tool .Text .Def)?
>>
>> Confused.
>>
>>
>> With thanks and best regards,
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>> Srinivas Nayak
>>
>> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
>> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
>>
>>> On 03/31/2016 09:31 PM, Dieter wrote:
>>> Hi Srinivas,
>>>
>>> I have been using ETH-Oberon for many  years on Windows.
>>>
>>> Any decent editor like "notepad++" can deal with the apple-like "0AX" end-of-line-character.
>>>
>>> When you are irritated by the binary stuff at the beginning , just remove it and save the rest as txt-file.
>>>
>>> To my understanding the binary stuff serves only for formatting the text of the module.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dieter
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 31.03.2016 um 17:40 schrieb Srinivas Nayak:
>>>> The biggest confusion right now I have is,
>>>> why Oberon didn't use simple ascii text files?
>>>>
>>>> None of Oberon files are open-able as plain ascii file!
>>>> Which extension in file name says that the file is a plain ascii file?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With thanks and best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>> Srinivas Nayak
>>>>
>>>> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
>>>> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
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