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>That's an interesting point. I am also a hybrid as I graduated with a major
>in Physics, but have always worked in my professional life as a computer
>scientist. That possibly explains why Niklaus Wirth's point of view has
>always seemed so intuitive. Whatever he says always make perfect sense to
>me.
Yeah, me too. I learned engineering in college, and then went to work
in aerospace engineering, where I've spent a lot of time developing
code -- mostly because the existing Fortran codes I inherited were so
terrible. I used Pascal in the 80's, Modula-2 in the early 90's, and
have been using Oberon/F and Component Pascal since the mid 90's.
Blackbox has a lot of concepts which I just plain don't understand,
but certainly the subset I use of it is excellent for writing
aerospace engineering applications. My users are quite happy, as
my codes are much more intuitive to use than what they're used to.
>I have been closely following the progress of Oberon for the last 14 years.
>Unfortunately, the look and feel of BlackBox applications and the output
>from other Oberon development tools have been considered too far from the
>mainstream for our primary market - the general public. However, now that
>the Component Pascal language is available as a plug-in component to the
>Microsoft Visual Studio.NET development environment I am really excited
>about the possibility of using my preferred language for real-world
>development.
Hmmm, I briefly tried the Gardens Point Component Pascal for .NET once,
and I was appalled it's very old-fashioned command line interface.
Seems I'm spoiled by being able to compile by clicking command-K, and
have the editor jump to the point in the code where it won't compile.
Or did I miss something when looking at the .NET version -- can you
use it in a somewhat modern way, or is the interface straight from the
1970s?
Marc Martin
Boeing Commercial Space Company
Seattle Washington USA
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