Re: [BLACKBOX] Seasoned Linux.

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:19:45 -0500

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Norayr Chilingarian wrote:

> OP2 is a ETH product

As far as I know, Component Pascal is a modified OP2. It has been
published. I think that some (perhaps all?) V4 implementations are also
OP2 and have been published. So I am not sure if there is any problem
anywhere.

> Then, it would be nice to have a crossplatform
> implementation of Oberon Gadgets, so Native Oberon's graphic editor
> would compile and work on Linux environment natively, not inside an
> Oberon OS window.

I did some work with Gadgets before I moved to BlackBox. Based on this
one project I found BlackBox framework more rigid and therefore more
robust. Gadgets gave me more freedom. It looked inviting at first, but
then led to bugs. Gadgets required me to write more code. Based on this
example I decided to stay with BlackBox, which I found less spiffy but
more robust. That was my experience based on one project.

> Oberon-2 is de facto standard of the language.
> Most of the people use it, or BlackBox version, which is Oberon-2
> extension. (Oberon-07 is descendant of Oberon, not Oberon-2) A lot of
> people cannot live without virtual method table.

N.Wirth did not invent Oberon-07 without a reason. My own feeling is that
Oberon-07 would be better for kernel-mode programming, where the programs
are relatively small. Oberon-2 and CP are better for larger projects, such
as GUI programming. Going back to my Gadgets versus BB example, my own
limited experience points in this direction.

Oberon-2 and CP are supersets of Oberon-1, so given a choice between the
two, one should rather choose the superset. I do not think we will ever
have a luxury of having both.

On the other hand, if there is ever a chance of having Oberon-07 versus
not having anything at all, I would rather have Oberon-07.


Wojtek

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