For those of you who, like me, were reading along and wondering “what does he mean by ‘now’?”, I tracked down the author’s CV, and this paper dates back to 2000. I found that context helpful.
I don’t understand the policy/practice of not putting publication dates on papers. It is such a critical piece of information - why do so many authors do this?
I agree, i have been frustrated by this multiple times, so many authors reference time with ‘recently’, ‘now’ or ‘soon’ and then don’t put a date on the paper.
In every school I went to, I was straight up required to do that or the paper didn’t count. I’ve collected so many CompSci papers over the years. The problem is huge. I often had to Google lots of the ones I found in various places to find author on the university website or paywall organizations that list that stuff. Sometimes it was even harder than that. They need to put the darned dates in the papers.
Oops. I just noticed I forgot to put the date on it this time. My bad. Since then, there’s been a few developments including A2 I linked to below, Blackbox Component Pascal for one of latest variants, and Astrobe for embedded applications.
I wrote a piece for the Reg a couple of years ago talking about Oberon, and due to some comments and emails, I blogged a page of links for more info – including the OP’s article. Folk might find it helpful.
I’m also trying to gauge interest in a native RasPi port. Seems an ideal fit to me.
You can use the ISO below with VirtualBox. It has a tutorial, demos, and so on built into it. I’m on my backup with a Celeron that’s too crappy to use the games or web browser (if the latter works at all).
Sure: Mike Spivey at Oxford University has maintained an Oberon compiler which was used in the Imperative Programming course for years. (Up until 2011 I believe)
For those of you who, like me, were reading along and wondering “what does he mean by ‘now’?”, I tracked down the author’s CV, and this paper dates back to 2000. I found that context helpful.
I don’t understand the policy/practice of not putting publication dates on papers. It is such a critical piece of information - why do so many authors do this?
I agree, i have been frustrated by this multiple times, so many authors reference time with ‘recently’, ‘now’ or ‘soon’ and then don’t put a date on the paper.
I don’t know for certain, but I suspect it’s because they upload the version they submitted for publication, so didn’t know the publication date.
Ok, but in those circumstances why not put the date when you finished the paper?
In every school I went to, I was straight up required to do that or the paper didn’t count. I’ve collected so many CompSci papers over the years. The problem is huge. I often had to Google lots of the ones I found in various places to find author on the university website or paywall organizations that list that stuff. Sometimes it was even harder than that. They need to put the darned dates in the papers.
Oops. I just noticed I forgot to put the date on it this time. My bad. Since then, there’s been a few developments including A2 I linked to below, Blackbox Component Pascal for one of latest variants, and Astrobe for embedded applications.
http://blackboxframework.org/
http://astrobe.com/Oberon.htm
I wrote a piece for the Reg a couple of years ago talking about Oberon, and due to some comments and emails, I blogged a page of links for more info – including the OP’s article. Folk might find it helpful.
I’m also trying to gauge interest in a native RasPi port. Seems an ideal fit to me.
http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/46523.html
Are there any good resources for trying out Oberon today, even in a VM? Or is now the property of papers only?
http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2014/ day12
http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2014/download/oberon.tar.xz
You can use the ISO below with VirtualBox. It has a tutorial, demos, and so on built into it. I’m on my backup with a Celeron that’s too crappy to use the games or web browser (if the latter works at all).
https://sourceforge.net/projects/a2oberon/files/
Sure: Mike Spivey at Oxford University has maintained an Oberon compiler which was used in the Imperative Programming course for years. (Up until 2011 I believe)
You can find the sources & precompiled binaries for Windows, Debian deriviatives & OSX here: http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/corner/Software_(Imperative_Programming)
Course notes and other materials here: http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/corner/Imperative_Programming