SRWHMAS@windy.dsir.govt.nz (Mark Stephens) (09/27/89)
Hi. I looked at the Oberon articles mentioned in an earlier posting in this group, and they were very interesting. Would anyone know where I could get an Oberon compiler to play with? A 32000 compiler is mentioned in the articles, but this wouldn't be much use to me, on a VAX :-) If I get any replies at all, I'll summarize here. BTW: is there a comp.lang.oberon yet ?? :-) Thankx, ------------------- Mark Stephens "We crashed a thousand yards below... Programmer and other things I said 'do it again! do it again!' " DSIR/DIT, Wellington, NZ. - the Man Who Sold the World "genie@windy.dsir.govt.nz"
sludwig@ics.uci.edu (Stefan Ludwig) (09/30/89)
I'm glad, someone besides the people in Wirth's group and myself likes Oberon. To my knowledge, there's no compiler for other machines than the original one for the Ceres Workstation (NS32x32). But some phd students in Wirth's group are working on a portable Oberon compiler. There should be implementations for SPARC, Mac and IBM-PC. A friend of mine and I are working on a compiler for the Amiga. It will also be portable and have an independent frontend for all machines. -> you only have to write the codegenerator for a new machine. There'll be a lot of other features too, (Class browser ...) There is also a new language called 'Object-Oberon' by Peter Moessenboeck and his grad. students. It is unlike Oberon a *true* object-oriented language, but still remains small and concise. There's a report available from the group. So, C++ watch out !! Stefan Stefan HM Ludwig "Don't flame my english, it's what they teach us in Swiss schools" E-MAIL: sludwig@ics.uci.edu until October 21st ludwig@badile.iis.ethz.ch later 'TRUE'MAIL: Stefan HM Ludwig Hotel Engematthof CH-8002 Zurich, Switzerland
sludwig@ics.uci.edu (Stefan Ludwig) (09/30/89)
Sorry, I'm having trouble posting an article. If you've seen this article before, just ignore the rest of it ! I'm glad, someone besides the people in Wirth's group and myself likes Oberon. To my knowledge, there's no compiler for other machines than the original one for the Ceres Workstation (NS32x32). But some phd students in Wirth's group are working on a portable Oberon compiler. There should be implementations for SPARC, Mac and IBM-PC. A friend of mine and I are working on a compiler for the Amiga. It will also be portable and have an independent frontend for all machines. -> you only have to write the codegenerator for a new machine. There'll be a lot of other features too, (Class browser ...) There is also a new language called 'Object-Oberon' by Peter Moessenboeck and his grad. students. It is unlike Oberon a *true* object-oriented language, but still remains small and concise. There's a report available from the group. So, C++ watch out !! Stefan Stefan HM Ludwig "Don't flame my english, it's what they teach us in Swiss schools" E-MAIL: sludwig@ics.uci.edu until October 21st ludwig@badile.iis.ethz.ch later 'TRUE'MAIL: Stefan HM Ludwig Hotel Engematthof CH-8002 Zurich, Switzerland