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pjmlp on March 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Ruby?

Have you ever used Native Oberon or his successor AOS operating systems?

A nice experience that it is possible to have desktop operating systems written in GC enabled system programming languages, contrary to what many people think.

Sadly not well known outside the Zurique's Technical University (ETHZ) or the institutes that work with them.

I liked in the experience back in the mid-nineties and I am a bit of Oberon collector.

willvarfar on March 22, 2013 | [–]

There is precious little exposure of Oberon.

What you need to do is make a decent 'unwrapping' video and then talk about how the object system worked e.g. widgets.

That'd get some attention here.

pjmlp on March 22, 2013 | | [–]

Yeah, I am actually planning to do something like this, but so far real life keeps getting in the way. :)

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