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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme: the way the future actually was
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:28:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121025152809.49ec4acb@vardo.ethans.dre.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJd0wvAMbPdO2E-oKhH-BZ0OXemY2vOG2SMcP9KymE8pzVRdXg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:48:40 -0800
Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:

> Even with it's "faults" (age?), I still miss Oberon. It was *fun* and elegant.
>
> -Jack
>

It's still around in AOS form where it can run native or as a
user-space program under other OSs. I used it to try out someone else's
work and didn't really find the UI very elegant. In particular I
couldn't copy text from the compiler error window, which I thought was
desperately bad. Anyway, apart from that it worked; middle-clicking to
compile and to launch the program was ok, and the OpenGL program I was
trying out ran very smoothly.

The only link I seem to have kept is http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/

--
This is obviously some strange usage of the word
"simple" that I was previously unaware of.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-25 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14 13:12 dexen deVries
2012-09-14 13:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-14 14:07   ` Lucio De Re
2012-09-14 14:10     ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found]     ` <CAOw7k5ggBBkJYOX_Qa-9Jh+h3D7wcYsmpjWyexFMba46LPvRrQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-09-14 14:19       ` erik quanstrom
2012-09-14 14:25         ` Hugo Rivera
2012-09-14 14:26         ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-14 16:48           ` Jack Johnson
2012-09-14 20:00             ` Anssi Porttikivi
2012-09-14 20:02               ` Anssi Porttikivi
2012-09-14 21:58                 ` Nick LaForge
2012-09-14 23:15                   ` hiro
2012-09-14 23:28                     ` Matthew Veety
2012-09-17 18:24                       ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-17 18:26                         ` Charles Forsyth
2012-09-18  6:03                           ` Anssi Porttikivi
2012-10-25 14:28             ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2012-10-25 14:58               ` Dan Cross
2012-09-17 12:51         ` michaelian ennis
2012-09-18 13:51           ` michaelian ennis
2012-09-15 12:51   ` Aram Hăvărneanu

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