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Author of oberonc here, thanks for trying it out :)

I think Fogus was able to summarize it quite well in his "Six works of Computer Science-Fiction" blog post [0]: "Wirth’s magnum opus is the quintessential example of Computer Scien…

You are right, but as you can see at page 11 (Figure 4 rightmost AST) of The Oberon System Family paper [0], Wirth's approach was extended to "hint" destinations as well. [0] https…

It would be great to have a simple Virgil x86-64 backend based only on the destination-driven code generation technique, and compare the performance of the generated code (and comp…

It is interesting to see that this approach has been used by Niklaus Wirth in most of his compilers, see "Compiler Construction - The Art of Niklaus Wirth" by Hanspeter Mössenböck …

The Oberon programming language is 37 years old. Since it is a memory safe language a compiler for the JVM can be written (with some workarounds), for example see the self-hosting …

If you want to try out only the Oberon language, you might be interested in oberonc [0] an oberon-07 self-hosting compiler for the JVM. There are other several Oberon implementatio…

If you want to try out only the Oberon language, you might be interested in oberonc [0] an oberon-07 self-hosting compiler for the JVM. There are other several Oberon implementatio…

If you want to try out only the Oberon language, you might be interested in oberonc [0] an oberon-07 self-hosting compiler for the JVM. There are other several Oberon implementatio…

If you want to try out only the Oberon language, there are several Oberon implementations for different platforms, including embedded systems, native windows executables, and the J…

When I read this book I had an hard time running and compiling the source code included. If you want to read the book and try out the example compiler (oberon0), you can follow the…

When I benchmarked oberonc [0], an oberon-07 self-hosting compiler for the JVM, it took about 100 ms with a hot VM on a old Intel i5 @ 2.80GHz. That compiler follows the same one-p…

You might be interested in oberonc [0] an oberon-07 self-hosting compiler for the JVM. [0] https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc

> And a lot of the compilers and tooling seems to be weirdly Windows-oriented When I read this book I had an hard time running and compiling the source code included. If you want t…

If you want to try out the Oberon language, there are several Oberon implementations for different platforms, including embedded systems, native windows executables, and the Java v…

I wrote a self-hosted one pass compiler exactly to showcase Niklaus Wirth's approach to writing compilers: https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc We often forget this alternative way (…

Here is the repo: https://github.com/lboasso/oberon0 Yes, you can write small Oberon-0 programs and compile them with an Oberon-07 compiler, but it is simpler to just use the Obero…

With oberonc you can compile the source code at http://www-oldurls.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstr... with minor changes to the I/O library calls. I can push the changes …

For the excellent introductory book "Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth, you could find compilers for the implementation language at http://oberon07.com/compilers.xhtml . If y…

Several other Oberon implementations exist for different platforms, including embedded systems, native windows executables, and the Java virtual machine: http://oberon07.com/compil…

or as pragmatic alternative "Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language" [0]. [0] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.p...

or as pragmatic alternative "Tcl: An Embeddable Command Language" [0]. [0] https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/tcl-usenix.p...

If you are interested in the Oberon-07 language, I made a port of Wirth's compiler for the JVM, see [0]. Several other implementations exist for different platforms [1]. [0] https:…

I enjoyed most of it. In particular: * Ch. 4 "Modules Should Be Deep" * Ch. 10 "Define Errors Out Of Existence" * Ch. 20 "Designing for Performance"

Another excellent resource is "A Philosophy of Software Design" [0], from John Ousterhout (known for Tcl/Tk, Raft, RAMCloud, Log-Structured File System). Like Niklaus Wirth, he is …