P.S. I should have directly pointed out that there were many earlier systems
that did the experiment of taking a single language and writing everything in
it.
(Some earlier than Smalltalk, etc., although it was interesting for being
"early, small, and very high level")
Cheers,
Alan
>________________________________
>From: Eduardo Cavazos <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:54 AM
>Subject: [fonc] Re: Ceres and Oberon
>
>Alan Kay wrote:
>
>> I'm glad that he has finally come to appreciate OOP.
>
>There are two kinds of people on this list. Those who can tell when Alan
>is joking and those that can't. :-D
>
>Don't know which I am but I can at least say that the OOP that is in
>Oberon is not what Alan had in mind when he invented the term.
>
>Sorry if you were being sincere Alan... :-)
>
>At any rate, I do appreciate the Oberon system and the evolution of
>Wirth's language through Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon. *Somebody* had to
>do the experiment that is: take a classical systems programming
>language, and implement a small, understandable, system and environment
>in that one language. I think the Oberon system is more or less what you
>get when you take a C-like language and "play it grand" on a
>workstation.
>
>As an aside, I think it's crazy that C hasn't at least grown a module
>system yet.
>
>Changing the subject a bit...
>
>We can all look to the past for great OS and language designs; each of
>us knows a few. However, I'm not so sure about the network aspects and
>the approaches to distributed computing. Can we look to the past for
>inspiring distributed computing environments? Or are the truly great and
>timeless ones yet to be invented? I guess we'll have to nail down and
>agree upon a decent node first.
>
>Ed
>
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