[Oberon] newcomer

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 at 19:03, <TealSynapse at proton.me> wrote:
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> hi all, i'm a newcomer to designing & implementing programs (be it system- application, web or realtime) but not for a lack of interest.

Hello there.

> i'd love to learn program design & implementation with Oberon-7 or Modula-2 or Pascal-P6,

The Pascal family certainly isn't a bad place to start, but
unfortunately Oberon is a bit of an obscure corner of that community.

Modula-2 is almost forgotten by history now.

Pascal is alive and relatively well.

Pascal-P6 is a historical footnote, though, Ignore that.

If you want to explore Pascal you could try the Free Pascal Compiler:

https://www.freepascal.org/

It has an excellent IDE in the form of Lazarus:

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

I recently wrote about the new release:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/new_lazarus_4/

> are you who read this sitting on any "beginners self-study courses"?

There are some docs for it. My article mentrons a newly-free book:

https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=5399

And also:

https://castle-engine.io/wp/2025/04/14/modern-pascal-course-examples-and-slides-updates-to-modern-pascal-book-to-fully-support-both-delphi-and-fpc/


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