Re: Porting to Java using Garden Point Compiler

From: [at]} <Rex>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:35:50 -0600

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        Thanks. That is indeed much better, and about as neat a solution as possible with object orientation. With all due respect, it's too fancy for me to have figured out, and I'm still hard pressed to discover any advantage over procedural variables. Procedural variables seem so much more concise, simpler, easier to read, and easier to remember.

        In Wirth's first paper on Oberon he said that minimalism might be extreme, and some features should probably be retained for simplicity. I note that the FOR statement had to be put back into some versions of the language, so now we have the worst possible situation -- dialects. I don't see why if you have an easy way and a hard way to accomplish something, you should throw out the hard way. It seems to me that minimalism can be the enemy of simplicity if it leads to more complicated code.

        As for discarding features in Oberon, I think breaking code is about the worst thing you can do to any language.

Sincerely,
Rex Couture


At 03:32 PM 11/17/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>...But, how about the following?
>This solution is identical to the traditional way of passing a
>function, and
>is a better solution than my previous one....
>My point is that procedure types are redundant, and it is the spirit of
>Oberon
>to not have more than one way to accomplish a task. There was even
>a battle to include the FOR statement in the language because it is not
>necessary as long as you have a WHILE.
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