[Oberon] Portings Texts.Mod to Oberon-7, my Artemis project

[Oleg N. Cher]

Dear Robert,

You may not have known this, but Ofront by Josef Templ has a successor - 
this is the Ofront+ (https://github.com/Oleg-N-Cher/OfrontPlus). It 
supports various UNIX-like (both 32-bit and 64-bit), as well as macOS 
and Windows. Also I tested this under Linux Armbian on Orange Pi PC Plus 
(ARMv7 architecture).

Also it has five input languages, including Oberon-07/16 and Component 
Pascal. The support for Oberon-07 was done rather hastily, I can't call 
it completed. But I'm interested in improving it. Therefore, I would be 
very grateful if you take Ofront+ as one of the translators for build 
the Artemis.

It should probably be noted here that I am interested in the industrial 
application of Oberon-07, and not in academic adherence to the canons of 
extreme simplicity. So I will support both language extensions and also 
things that seem reasonable to me.

Also, I just recently thought about the need to support UTF-8 as one of 
input text format for Ofront+. I do not know what this might look like 
in Oberon-07, where the CHAR type size is not fixed, which is likely to 
cause a lot of problems. But I will probably have to develop something 
like the Texts module, which should support at the input ANSI, UTF-8 
encoded text, and I will definitely need support of the .odc format from 
BlackBox Component Builder. The output will be a two-byte CHAR type.

  even more than sure that you don't need support of .odc format, as 
well as Component Pascal language. But I decided to inform you anyway.

Thank you for developing Artemis, I will follow your development.


Robert Doiel пишет:
> This list discussion around Oberon Texts has been inspiring. It is been so
> inspiring I've create a GitHub repository  named Artemis:
> 
>  > Artemis is an Oberon-7 module collection. My hope is
>  > to encourage continued use and development of the Oberon-7
>  > language and encourage convergence towards compatibility
>  > in implementations of Oberon-7 compilers.
> 
> 
> This ties back to the Texts discussion in one significant way. I am 
> planning
> to port both S3 (Native Oberon) Texts.Mod and V4 (Linz) Texts (Texts.Mod,
> Elem.Mod, etc) to Oberon-7.  That code will wind up in Artemis and be 
> used to
> implement an "ocat" (like Joseph Templ's ocat from ofront) that will 
> work for
> each of the type of Texts.
> 
> I've looked at each implementation and I think unifying them is beyond my
> skill but porting each one would be extremely useful, especially from a
> preservation point of view.
> 
> I am not promising fast (or successful) development.  I am one of those
> dreaded hobbyist when it comes to Oberon.  I think the collection will be
> useful as it evolves.  It is likely to hold my interest for quite some 
> time.
> I think it will be especially for useful for fellow novices exploring
> Oberon-7 on POSIX.
> 
>     https://github.com/rsdoiel/Artemis
> 
> Feed back welcome, criticism is helpful, pull request exciting. You can
> reach me on this email list and via GitHub issue
> (https://github.com/rsdoiel/Artemis/issues).
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Robert Doiel
> 
> 
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