[Oberon] What is the status of Lola-2 and its use in the FPGA version ofProject Oberon?

[Chris Burrows]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Skulski, Wojciech
> Sent: Friday, 15 March 2019 1:43 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] What is the status of Lola-2 and its use in the
> FPGA version ofProject Oberon?
> 
> > But PO FPGA seems to be implemented in Verilog instead...
> > independently developed...and more current.
> 
> I am constantly surprised that PO was implemented in C-like Verilog
> rather than Pascal-like VHDL.
> 

I'm only guessing / speculating but:

1. Easier to compile to a lower-level language?

e.g. other transpilers are:

     Oberon to C
     C to assembler

2. Not so much to be gained translating from one language to another that is
very similar? i.e. There is less need to try to make VHDL more palatable.

Regards,
Chris

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com