This paper is old but very interesting because Michael Franz, the first Oberon user other than Wirth and Gutknecht, presented some unique or overlooked features of Oberon.
These academic sites host the paper but you may get warnings as both don't support HTTPS (I have no other links, sorry):
I still have my copy of "Project Oberon: Design of an Operating System and Compiler" by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht.
The book is more than a tribute to Wirth and a manifesto of his life and work. It's also a fine piece of system design documentation and technical writing.
Etliches rund um Eigentum:
➡️ Kann ich Gekauftes auch reparieren?
➡️ Kann ich Gekauftes auch behalten?
(Leider ist die Antwort darauf immer häufiger "Nein")
➡️ Funktioniert eine Linksteuer?
(Antwort ist klar; nun aber auch mit Beispielen)
5️⃣ Am 1. Januar ist Niklaus Wirth, Schweizer Informatikpionier, im Alter von 88 Jahren verstorben.
Er wurde u.a. für seine Programmiersprache #Pascal und Weiterentwicklungen sowie seinen konsequenten Minimalismus und Kritik an langsamen IT-Systemen bekannt.
I asked the PARC veterans of the Medley Interlisp project whether they interacted with Niklaus Wirth during his sabbaticals at the lab. Ron Kaplan shared a funny early 1970s anecdote on a comment by Wirth on what we now call email notifications:
@amoroso The remark Ron Kaplan remembers is not the only prescient thought #Wirth had. His "Plea for Lean Software" can be considered an early contribution to #sustainableComputing.
Sad news, Niklaus Wirth, inventor of Pascal, dies at 89. In 1979 with an Apple II+ there was Basic and then with dual 5.25 inch floppy drives (147K storage each) Pascal arrived. It was a gift to those learning computer languages. Wirth was instrumental with so many of us broadening what computers could do. It meant so much then. He is part of computer history. #pascal#wirth
Faleceu dia primeiro Nikolaus #Wirth, criador, entre outras linguagens, de #Pascal, uma das linguagens que eu gostei de usar por muitos anos, primeiro como adolescente autodidata vc (nem lembro direto o que eu fazia) e depois numa versão embutida em um software de CAD (eu criava plug-ins e "objetos paramétricos").
Sad to learn that Niklaus Wirth has passed away. His contributions to computing and especially computer science as well as education in Switzerland cannot be overstated. I was fortunate enough to attend a guest lecture at HSR/OST and meet/talk to him afterwards a few years ago. A kind person with so many things to teach. In particular I really appreciated his book about Oberon where he presents a full Computer (Hardware & Software) that one person can understand. The power of simplicity.
He used his ETHZ page even after retiring from the university and his book „Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer“, (Revised Edition 2013) incl. sources etc is all available for free:
RIP Niklaus #Wirth. Wirth's #Pascal was among the first programming languages I actually enjoyed, after love-hate with #Fortran, #AssemblyLanguage and #PL1. I did loads of programming in Pascal in the 1970s and 1980s, on #DEC10s, #Vaxen and on the first IBM PCs (#TurboPascal). Then, #Modula. If you are using a #Logitech device today (I am!), that's another outcome of Wirth's vast ouvre!