Re:Project Oberon
by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @07:45PM
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Which is unsurprising, because Rob Pike was openly influenced by Oberon in the design of both Acme and the original Plan 9 windowing system 8½ and its current successor rio.
Oberon exploits it further, though. Plan 9 does use chording, programmable text and plumbing but only insofar as it complements the synthetic file system interface, whereas Oberon is more thoroughly object-oriented and can have the text serve as a pointer to various OS subsystems, creating a sort of graphical continuation-passing style, as I alluded.
Oberon exploits it further, though. Plan 9 does use chording, programmable text and plumbing but only insofar as it complements the synthetic file system interface, whereas Oberon is more thoroughly object-oriented and can have the text serve as a pointer to various OS subsystems, creating a sort of graphical continuation-passing style, as I alluded.