Yes, I am still subscribed to this list... And I noticed that "Oberon on FPGA" project, but have not read much about it. Recently, when I was looking about some news about Mozillas Rust language, I discovered Nimrod, a language which looks similar to Modula/Oberon, with some interesting new features. Nimrod is not very popular now, some people simple do not like the Wirthian style syntax. (And of course there are many other interesting new languages available now, Mozillas Rust with C syntax, Julia for numerical computing, Haskell -- not really new, but still modern...) But maybe someone of you may be interested in Nimrod. Of course it is no operating system, just a modern language. Keywords: Wirthian syntax, with Python indentation, system- and high-level programming, garbage-collector which still allows time critical applications, advanced generics, templates, high-level macros. Good support for parallel processing. Speed seems to be close to C. Currently Compiler generates C intermediate code. Currently there is no wikipedia entry (was rejected) so it is difficult to discover it. There was an article in DrDobbs Journal recently, and of course there is a homepage with a tutorial. http://nimrod-lang.org/ http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/nimrod-a-new-systems-programming-languag/... Not a high rank at http://langpop.corger.nl/ but Oberon is not listed at all ;-) Best regards Stefan Salewski
but Oberon is not listed at all ;-)
strange enough, since the diagram is created dnymically from GitHub & StackOverflow data and on both platform search for Oberon finds results, but maybe both miss some kind of a language tag. -- Bernhard
-----Original Message----- From: Treutwein Bernhard [mailto:Bernhard.Treutwein@Verwaltung.Uni- Muenchen.DE] Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2014 10:40 PM To: 'ETH Oberon and related systems' Subject: Re: [Oberon] Nimrod is not Oberon
strange enough, since the diagram is created dnymically from GitHub & StackOverflow data and on both platform search for Oberon finds results, but maybe both miss some kind of a language tag.
A high count on StackOverflow is a good measure of how difficult it is to use a language so Oberon would be way down the chart ;-) -- Chris
from Oberon Digest, Vol 120, Issue 20 (21-May-2014): [...]
strange enough, since the diagram is created dnymically from GitHub & StackOverflow data and on both platform search for Oberon finds results, butmaybe both miss some kind of a language tag.
A high count on StackOverflow is a good measure of how difficult it is to use a language so Oberon would be way down the chart ;-)
very lately: yes, oberon is down the chart and has a count of 9 (2 this year) on StackOverflow. -- Bernhard
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