Dear list, Arthur Yefimov <artur.efimov@gmail.com> wrote:

To republish Wirth's book on Project Oberon is a brilliant idea. TeX is a perfect solution.

I believe I have never really written anything here before, I have been mainly watching, out of curiosity. Pascal-like systems have barely won my sympathy. But. I read (part of) the Project Oberon book. My feeling about the whole work of NW was that he tried to create a simple and mostly self-sufficient system. I bet he knew about the existence of TeX, yet he probably used his tools (from within the system itself?!) to write the book, create pictures, etc. If this was really so, it would just be against the sense of his intentions to use TeX to 'republish' his book (and especially the book about the Oberon system; the other books of his are a different story altogether). Sure I may well be absurdly wrong. Best regards, Ruda PS.: To me, the important and rather missing thing about the Oberon system is the hardware that one could easily build and run the system on; as open/simple as only possible.