Subj : Re: C++ joke post --troll like style- EXPLAINED!
To   : comp.programming
From : August Karlstrom
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 01:08 pm

Mabden wrote:
>>>There's a language called Oberon?
>>
>>Even a usenet group dedicated to it - comp.lang.oberon
>>
>>but the traffic is as low as you might expect for a language that
>>didn't exactly 'make it' in the mainstream.   It followed Pascal &
>>Module [sic] from Niklaus Wirth.
> 
> 
> Ahhh... Wirth-less as a language, but great for teaching how a language
> might work.
> 
> I loved Pascal. Then I found C.
> 
> I learned how one pointer worked in Pascal. Then I found out you could
> pointers to EVERYTHING (even functions!).
> 
> Wirth did his job well, in designing languages that teach programming
> concepts better than BASIC. He should be honored in some Computer
> Programming Hall of Fame.
> 
> Just don't use them for actual work...

Before you make any false claims, read the report "The programming 
language Oberon-2":

ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon/OberonV4/Docu/Oberon2.Report.ps.gz
http://www.zel.org/aos/o2report.htm.


August

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