[Oberon] Oberon Digest, Vol 160, Issue 26

[August Karlstrom]

On 2017-09-30 15:12, Michael McGaw wrote:
> To adopt these later variants in Oberon is quite a task, if you must 
> convert an existing, active code base to adopt the new language.  And, 
> this base works only until the *next* decision to simplify or streamline 
> the language further.

I would be surprised if are any bigger upcoming changes to Oberon by 
now. The last changes (if I remember correctly) has been minor.

> I do very 
> much appreciate the laser-like intensity and clarity with which Wirth 
> has gone after these many details.  
Me too, and I don't want Prof. Wirth's new inventions to be hampered by 
backwards compatibility.

-- August