[Oberon] newcomer

[Ivan Denisov]

OMG, such a depressive response about Oberon.

There are many active Oberon and you can use for education N. Wirth book 
"Algorithms and Data Structures"

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/AD.pdf

There is active BlackBox Component Builder cross-platform project

https://blackbox.oberon.org/

ofront+ project for many platforms

https://github.com/Oleg-N-Cher/OfrontPlus

And https://free.oberon.org/  is based on ofront+

For education there is Online Oberon

https://online.oberon.org/

Astrobe for MCU

https://astrobe.com/

Recordino is active project for STM32  I am doing based on O7 compiler

https://recordino.ldnova.com/

(the website in Russian but you can easily translate, I plan to make an 
English version)

Vostok is also working!

https://github.com/Vostok-space/vostok

and more...


Kind regards,

Ivan Denisov


12.06.2025 21:59, Liam Proven пишет:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 at 19:03, <TealSynapse at proton.me> wrote:
>> 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/
>
>