25 Apr
2016
25 Apr
'16
9:39 a.m.
On 04/25/2016 09:38 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Oberon "not commercially viable"? That's
a remarkably
foolish, short-sighted and ignorant thing to say. Oberon
is what Pascal grew up into, and I think a million-odd
Delphi programmers would have very strong words with you
that the Pascal family isn't commercially viable. And you
do know what Apple MacOS was originally written in, don't
you? I wrote about Oberon myself recently:
Since FPC (Free Pascal Compiler) has
been developed on
Linux, maybe Pascal could have a resurgence.
I used it to port a couple of my programs from (Ughhh!)
Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows to Linux, and it was a
surprisingly painless job. The only thing I notice is the
error messages look exactly like Borland error messages on
DOS. (Error 132 at 1B7F sort of thing.)
Jon