January 2026 - Oberon - mailman3.inf.ethz.ch

Re: [Oberon] Export of Oberon Mail.SendCmd().
by Joerg 30 Oct '26

30 Oct '26

Generally, re-using code instead of copying is a good approach. If you do so, then the whole code of Mail is imported in News. Possible but perhaps there is even a better approach to re-use code. What about this: try to separate all common code in an own module (e.g call it Communication.Mod or MsgBase.Mod or Utilities.Mod or so) and import this new module in Mail and in News. br Jörg > Am 14.06.2023 um 19:53 schrieb peter(a)easthope.ca: > > Hello again, > > Several procedures in Mail are used in Oberon News. Rg.: > Mail.ParseContent(), Mail.DecodeMessage() & Mail.GetSetting(). > > Is export of SendCmd() and use in News objectionable? > Ie. in Mail, change PROCEDURE SendCmd(...) to PROCEDURE SendCmd*(...). > > Thanks, ... P. > > - > mobile: +1 778 951 5147 > VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 > > -- > Oberon(a)lists.inf.ethz.ch mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems > https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon

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Re: [Oberon] Compilation of A2.
by peter＠easthope.ca 12 Jan '26

12 Jan '26

Michael and all, From: Michael Schierl <schierlm at gmx.de> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:25:01 +0100 > Something is different not in EasyOS but in your install. My ignorance had led to inconsistencies. peter at easthope.ca peter at easthope.ca Sat Jan 10 19:51:25 CET 2026 > ... need to add notes about EasyOS and compiling to the wikibook. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2#Tested_Instances https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/A2#Compilation_&_Linking Feedback always welcome. Thx, ... P.L. -- mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 778 508 0020 projects: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

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Re(3): Compilation of A2.
by peter＠easthope.ca 10 Jan '26

10 Jan '26

From: Michael Schierl <schierlm(a)gmx.de> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:25:01 +0100 > Something is different not in EasyOS but in your install. Correct. The destination path I gave for the decoded file in EasyOS was nonexistent. In Devuan my working directory for A2 is /home/root/A/. In EasyOS it's /root/A/. Stared at /home/root/A/ repeatedly; didn't register until today; brain was off-line. Compiling the current sources was a needed exercise. Thanks. Also need to add notes about EasyOS and compiling to the wikibook. Thx! ... P.L. -- mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 778 508 0020 projects: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

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A new programming language "GWD" and its compiler/interpreter.
by Srinivas Nayak 09 Jan '26

09 Jan '26

Dear All, Wishing you all a Happy New year 2026. Here, I would like to share my joy with you. Towards end of 2025, I was working on my little programming language "GWD" and its compiler. It was inspired by our master Niklaus Wirth. It was my wish to create a small language like Oberon, and learn compiler design from Wirth's Oberon compiler. Mainly because it used recursive descent parsing, and syntax driven translation for code generation. I was inspired by his idea of extending Record to support Object Orientation as well. Designing a simple VM was also inspired by him. Kindly have a look at it here: https://github.com/snayaksnayak/gwd I will wait to hear your kind feedbacks. Sincerely, Srinivas Nayak +91 9090406225

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ETH Oberon version numbers.
by peter＠easthope.ca 08 Jan '26

08 Jan '26

Greetings for the New Year, I happened to find https://semvir.org and linked it in the footnote for the first entry in the glossary. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/Glossary What I've written is speculative. Another possibility: the Lilith workstation was major 1, Ceres V1 was 2.1, Ceres V2 was 2.2 and PC Native Oberon was 2.3. Hence ETHO 2.3.6 and 2.3.7. People active in the early years are still alive. Can someone provide a more definite explanation? Thanks! ... P.L. -- mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 778 508 0020 projects: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:PeterEasthope

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