- Increasing the spread of Component Pascal

From: [at]} <Les>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:49 +0100

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Isn't it time to start asking why if Component Pascal has all the
advantages which everyone agrees about, including me, it has made so
little headway either amongst professional programmers or amongst people
who do another job but need to program to do it better? Is the BB
framework a hindrance or a help in increasing its spread?

Note that this is specifically asking whether it helps or hinders the
spread of CP, and not whether you personally think it is the best thing
'since sliced bread'. (As we put it here in the UK)

Personally I am appalled to find that cars can have computers programmed
in C and medical equipment programmed in C++ is legal. These are just
two of the reasons I would like Oberon/CP to be more widely known and used.

Component Pascal integrated into VS, especially if it were a 'free'
Express version, would give much more exposure to the language as well
as being a viable programming environment for serious programming..

Embracing the dot net platform means that Microsoft does all the work of
shifting things to 64 bit processors and the Mono project does all the
work of shifting things to Linux. How long before we see a dot net port
to the new Apple Intel machines?

These things may not be here yet and the Mono project may never get the
Linux equivalent of 'Windows Forms'. But it is clear from the comments
and the links that progress in the direction of dot net is being made.

On the other such a shift would move away from the 'Oberon' philosophy
embraced by BB as set out in 'FFF97-Oberon in the Real World' (The
School of Niklaus Wirth - The Art of Simplicity 2000).

Les May

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