Hello Prof. Treutwein,
Thanks for the compliment, but I'm forwarding this to Jono
Hardjowirogo, ACM Press Books publisher, as this question
is beyond my scope. I was not aware that ACM Press had
discontinued the Oberon series, but perhaps he can give details
regarding the decision or refer you to the proper authority in
this case. Good luck.
Best regards,
Deborah
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 3:50 AM
> To: cotton{([at]})nowhere.xy> Subject: The Oberon Series
>
> Dear Deborah Cotton,
>
> sorry to contact you again, but since you were very cooperative in
> my Copyright question about Reiser's Oberon System in April to June
> this year, I hope that you can point me out, whome I should contact
> with the following issue:
>
> AWL has finally shut down the whole Oberon series:
>
> [WiR92] N. Wirth and M. Reiser
> Programming in Oberon - Steps Beyond Pascal and Modula
> Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56543-9
>
> [Rei92] M. Reiser
> The Oberon System; User Guide and Programmer's Manual
> Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54422-9
>
> [WiG92] N. Wirth and J. Gutknecht
> Project Oberon - The Design of an Operating System and Compiler
> Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54428-8
>
> [WiR94] N. Wirth and M. Reiser
> Programmieren in Oberon - Das neue Pascal
> Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 3-89319-657-9 -
> Translated into German by J. Templ.
>
> Shortly after Wirth's retirement in April this year. I don't know if
> this was done by AWL in arrangement with ACM, but I think this is
> abashing (don't know if this is the correct english word, I'm not a
> native speaker) since Wirth has done pioneering work, which was
> accomplished by several organizations (see the inlcuded selected list
> of honors, taken from: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/):
>
>
> Selected Honours
>
> ACM, A. M. Turing Award (1984)
> IEEE Computer Society, Computer Pioneer Award (1988)
> IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize 1988 (1989)
> Member, Swiss Academy of Engineering, 1992
> Foreign Associate, US Academy of Engieering, 1994
> Orden Pour le merite, 1996.
> Honorary Doctorates:
> University of York, England, 1978
> Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1978
> Laval University, Quebec, Canada, 1987
> Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, Austria, 1993
> University of Novosibirsk, Russia, 1996
> The Open University, England, 1997
> University of Pretoria, South Africa, 1998
>
>
> Now my question: Who is responsible at ACM for such a decision
> (if the series was dropped by AWL in arrangement with ACM), or
> how can this step be taken back, if it is in the interest of
> ACM to keep this series.
>
> Thanks in advance for your advise
> --
> Bernhard Treutwein Tel. +49-89-5996-642, Fax -615
> Institut f. Med. Psychologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
> bernhard{([at]})nowhere.xy> -------------------------------- ---------------------------
> C is its own virus
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