- BB: The future: Is there one?

From: Bob Walkden <"Bob>
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 15:46:30 +0100

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>
> What seems to be quite clear is that what users really value
> about BB is the Component Pascal language.

I don't think you can really come to this conclusion based on only 2 or 3
replies. I suspect the majority of Oberon language users are also users of
the Oberon environments, and that BB/CP users are a minority within that.

In my case, I like the language and I like the BB development environment.
The BB environment is very similar to a true Oberon environment. Between
them they provide me with what I consider to be the best development
environments I have worked with in 25 years of computing. If it were just a
matter of the language I would use GPCP more than BB, but I find it much
easier and more natural to use BB than anything else.

In addition to that, BB provides the cleanest and best separation between
the user interface and the model that I have ever encountered, and makes all
other interface builders that I've used seem extremely primitive.

> The reason also
> seems clear; its use leads to correctly functioning programs
> which do exactly what they are intended to do.
>
> That would seem to set out the 'Road Map' for the future of
> BB: Embed Component Pascal in a more 'mainstream' IDE.

This is certainly a useful thing to do, and GPCP is doing it. But personally
I would like to have seen the original concept of BB developed, whereby the
spirit of Oberon is maintained and the details of the particular operating
environment are abstracted away.

I can understand the commercial pressures which prevented OMS from doing
this, but it would have been nice to be able to make use of some of the
benefits of .Net in the same way that I can use the previous user interface
tools. Que no sera, no sera.

Bob

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