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Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language

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Re: Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language

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Does anybody use Oberon for any real-world project? Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic language / operating system. I'm just wondering.

Not directly. But Nim took a lot of inspiration from Oberon/Modula for its type and module system.

Re: Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language

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Does anybody use Oberon for any real-world project? Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic language / operating system. I'm just wondering.

> OBERON.ORG project unites projects related to programming languages Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Modula-2/3, Oberon-07 and Component Pascal (Blackbox Oberon).

Which of the Oberons? :) They are all the same with subtle differences like one having three different types of loops, and the other only two and so on.

In Russia there's a small but active group of academics who are trying to bring (force?) Blackbox as a teaching/learning environment to schools and universities.

Re: Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language

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FWIW there are a few emulators for the Oberon RISC chip:

In C: https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon-risc-emu

In JavaScript and Java: https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/

(The JS one runs in the browser so you can launch an emulated Oberon OS from the little web form there. It has the compiler included!)

In Python: https://pythonoberon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (My own project.)

Re: Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language

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Wasn't there also an Oberon book (not mentioned on this page), describing the design of the language and OS? I remember seeing it in the university library 25 years ago.

The Project Oberon site ( http://www.projectoberon.com/ ) listed has the books in PDF form (in sections.)

Awesome books BTW.

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