[Oberon] Oberon FPGA hardware point of view

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 19:48, Jan de Kruyf <jan.de.kruyf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But modern embedded controllers can be 64-bit RISC chips with a few
> > gig of RAM. They are not your grandad's AVR Atmegas.
>
> I like that statement!
>
> And shortly we will have 128-bitters with many gigs of RAM and we will still be programming them. AND also in Ada.
>
> But in all seriousness Liam. I do not mean to offend you. It is just that I found that on the present job the AVR - Ada combination reduces my foot print / cost by 75 % (roughly) with the same throughput as a "modern"  embedded solution.
>
> Enjoy C++

I'm very glad to hear it.

And please don't take me as a C/C++/etc. enthusiast or advocate. In
fact, the reverse is true. Thus my interest in Oberon!

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