[Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.

[Douglas G Danforth]

BlackBox and Component Pascal run on Ubuntu (Linux) by using Wine (Wine 
is not an emulator).



On 10/30/2016 2:00 PM, Lars wrote:
> On Wed, October 26, 2016 7:04 am, Skulski, Wojciech wrote:
>> Ideally, we need Component Pascal. It was the best of the Oberon family
>> so far.
>>
>> W.
> I enjoyed Component Pascal when I tried it,  however I was a little eerie
> of using it due to its reliance on MS COM technology (tied to the MS
> platform) compared to something like Lazarus IDE where you can compile an
> application on BSD, Linux, or Windows with no COM reliance.  Com is
> interesting though as it allows widgets to be reused in ways never thought
> before.
>
> But then I think someone ported component pascal libraries over to linux
> and that got me a little interested again, but I am not sure of the status
> of those works.
>
> What I did not like about component pascal, is that strings were harder to
> work with than delphi or lazarus, or GoLang, but I've already brought that
> topic up several times and do not mean to bring it up too much
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