[Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Lars
> Sent: Saturday, 5 November 2016 5:37 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Oberon for a C++ user.
> 
> On Sun, October 30, 2016 10:19 pm, Skulski, Wojciech wrote:
> > Blackbox has this subsystem named Forms, which is based on
> > metaprogramming. It is genial. I explained some of it in my
> presentation.
> > I do not know if this solution is unique in the industry. Maybe
> they
> > took it from somewhere else.
> >
> 
> There is likely a relationship between Forms and Delphi forms or
> visual basic forms?
> 
> In delphi when you click a button or have an event occur on a GUI
> widget, you get parameters sent in to a procedure which pass
> information about the event... such as Button1OnClick(paramaters)
> 
> How does that differ to component pascal? Did they take some of the
> ideas from delphi?
> 

The Blackbox Component Builder system (originally called Oberon/F) for
Component Framework development using the Component Pascal language was
based on a dissertation titled 'Insight ETHOS. On object-orientation in
operating systems' by Clemens Szyperski published in 1992. 

Delphi v1.0 did not appear until 1995 - by that time Visual Basic was
already at v3. However, neither are mentioned in his dissertation. Systems
that he does reference are:

Cedar, Oberon, Smalltalk, Choices, Clouds, Guide/Commandos, SOS, Amoeba .
Mach/NextStep, V Kernel, Chorus, Plan 9, PenPoint and Vamos/Overview. 

For more information download his paper from:

https://e-collection.library.ethz.ch/view/eth:38713

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp