[Oberon] New to Oberon

[Pablo Cayuela]

I, as Liam Proven, am an occasional collaborator of Peter Lyall Easthope in
the Oberon article on wikipedia and the Oberon book on wikibooks.
I've also enjoyed all the articles by Liam, even I read his articles on old
Sinclair machines, Linux related and others.
I'm glad that he is interested in Oberon (is not his only one), and his
labor is useful to keep the flame alive.
I do find myself that the enciclopedic nature of the wikipedia article or
the book is an enormous task for a person alone. Also with the list, all of
them are the sources for many of my own experiments with Oberon.
I'm really grateful for the many different people that are members of this
awesome list and to the great people that are part in one way or another to
this great Oberon community.

I do feel that we could contribute to a quick guide to the many versions of
both the Oberon Project and the Oberon programming language.
That could ease the entry level for anyone to know about and try out for
himself Oberon in any version.
I'm trying to collect in my personal user on github, many Oberon version,
but right now it is not a big nor exhaustive list of items.
I still think that the wikipedia and the wikibook are the best places to
sum up all of our efforts to help any newbie and especially anyone of us,
anytime that we need to put to work any Oberon.
I'll be glad to put my efforts to that goal.

Prof Pablo Cayuela
Argentina


On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 10:46, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 at 10:17, Till Oliver Knoll
> <till.oliver.knoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Am 18.06.23 um 10:14 schrieb Till Oliver Knoll:
> > > Am 18.06.23 um 10:01 schrieb Till Oliver Knoll:
> > >> And I am sure you will quickly receive more answers where to get
> > >> started on this list :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Now I got curious and did some research on my own:
> >
> >
> > And not to forget, Wikipedia has some promising references as well:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
>
> I did some fairly substantial editing work on the A2 article on
> Wikipedia a few years back, although I can see that others have done
> much more work since then. I also note that the Oberon Attical it self
> has had a lot of work done on it since I last looked at it.
>
> I would really like to see the Wikipedia coverage expanded -- not to
> in any way denigrate Peter's hard work on the wikibooks documentation,
> I think that more and better descriptions on Wikipedia would be a net
> benefit.
>
> I wrote about Oberon myself recently, put a link on this list about my
> coverage, and got some fairly stinging rebuttals which told me that my
> coverage was out of date and not accurate. :-(
>
> I emailed directly to the people that questioned my article, asking
> for a bit more info and offering to write an updated article -- but
> sadly none of them replied to me. So if I could get more and better
> information myself I would not only be happy to work on the Wikipedia
> article but to provide it with some more coverage in the Register… but
> it's a bit hard to find out, as you've discovered.
>
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