[Oberon] newcomer

[Paul Reed]

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for this great list, I think also Liam was being a bit 
tongue-in-cheek as usual. ;-)

I think it's also important to note that there are a lot of very 
experienced people lurking here, who normally stay quiet but will be 
only too happy to help with any specific issues, when encountered.

So newcomers should feel free to dive in!

Cheers,
Paul


On 2025-06-13 08:20, Ivan Denisov wrote:
> 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/
>> 
>> 
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