Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple

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  • specification

    The Oberon+ Programming Language Specification (by oberon-lang)

  • Great, thanks!

    There are books online for free, e.g.

    https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProgInOberonWR.pdf

    and https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Books/Oberon2.pdf

    Oberon+ is a superset of Oberon 90 and Oberon-2. Here is more information: https://oberon-lang.github.io/, and here is the current language specification: https://github.com/oberon-lang/specification/blob/master/The.... I already had valuable feedback here on HN concerning the channel extensions. Further research brought me to the conclusion, that Oberon+ should support both, channels and also monitors, because even in Go, the sync package primitives are used twice as much as channels. Mutexes and condition variables can be emulated with channels (I tried my luck here: https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-emulate-mutexes-and-conditi...), but for efficiency reasons I think monitors should be directly supported in the language as well, even if it might collide with the goal of simplicity.

    Feel free to comment here or e.g. in https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/discussions/45.

  • Oberon

    Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger

  • Great, thanks!

    There are books online for free, e.g.

    https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProgInOberonWR.pdf

    and https://ssw.jku.at/Research/Books/Oberon2.pdf

    Oberon+ is a superset of Oberon 90 and Oberon-2. Here is more information: https://oberon-lang.github.io/, and here is the current language specification: https://github.com/oberon-lang/specification/blob/master/The.... I already had valuable feedback here on HN concerning the channel extensions. Further research brought me to the conclusion, that Oberon+ should support both, channels and also monitors, because even in Go, the sync package primitives are used twice as much as channels. Mutexes and condition variables can be emulated with channels (I tried my luck here: https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-emulate-mutexes-and-conditi...), but for efficiency reasons I think monitors should be directly supported in the language as well, even if it might collide with the goal of simplicity.

    Feel free to comment here or e.g. in https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/discussions/45.

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  • cm3

    Critical Mass Modula-3

  • https://github.com/modula3/cm3

    I have been thinking alot about Pascal/Modula origins of M3 (Re: Wirth) as well as the DEC/Olivetti/CriticalMass/etc. people related to crafting M3

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