From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
To: plan9-fans@cse.psu.edu, sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu,
schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: acme for X?
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 06:11:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <swordfish.786799464@minster.york.ac.uk> (raw)
Scott says:
>Anyone who is interested in acme should take a look at Oberon, the
>system that inspired it. Wirth has written a book and a number of
>papers about it. You can ftp it from neptune.inf.ethz.ch; they have
>binaries for sparc and some other systems.
I'd agree with this -- Oberon is an interesting and very slick system which
is well worth investigating -- anything that manages to pack a GUI, word
processor, compiler, drawing program, mail tool, paint program, terminal
emulator and so on into a few meg is _very_ impressive..
>Anyway, the system is amazingly efficient and elegant. Everyone I've
>shown it to has said "Wow.", so go check it out while we're waiting
>for the next Plan 9 cd to arrive.
Yes, Oberon is elegant, but not in the same way that Help and Acme are --
it's hard to create ``ad hoc'' tools in Oberon without a fair bit of
programming... It's a nice environment for building and documenting
Oberon programs but I wouldn't want to spend all day in it!
pete
--
Peter Fenelon - Research Associate - High Integrity Systems Engineering Group,
Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD +44 (0)904 433388
EMAIL: pete@minster.york.ac.uk `There's no room for enigmas in built-up areas'
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1994-12-07 11:11 pete [this message]
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1994-12-06 23:03 ` Doug Becker
1994-12-07 3:34 ` Scott Schwartz
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1994-12-06 21:22 Bill Trost
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