A basic forking server in Oberon-2

https://github.com/norayr/voc/tree/master/src/test/server

by eatonphil • 10 years ago

81 36 10 years ago

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mizzao• 10 years ago

Any comment on what is so special about this?

nine_k3• 10 years ago

If you ever wondered where Go took a lot of good ideas from, look at Modula / Oberon.

theamk2• 10 years ago

In the code the link points to, I just see another C-like language.

What "good ideas" should I be looking at? I am not Oberon expert, but in any other language I'd say this code is pretty bad:

- logic errors: We keep going even if error occurs (none of the error checks have return in them).

- In two different source files, "System" is imported under two different names. Is this just to confuse the readers?

- Hardcoded string length (Mod.s:17). If someone to change the message, you have to be very careful to update the length.

- Arbitrary constants (why '2' in Mod.s:23)?

talideon• 10 years ago

That, and Algol 68.

coldtea4• 10 years ago

Where is pjmlp when we need him?

photigragraphy• 10 years ago

In college I wrote a (miserable) Modula-2 compiler. Its funny seeing Oberon-2 being used in the wild but brings back a touch of nostalgia.

asimuvPR• 10 years ago

OT: This is very nice code. It reads very well.

zerr• 10 years ago

How do you type these ALL CAPS keywords, isn't this very daunting?

Avshalom2• 10 years ago

Personally I hold the shift key with one of my fingers.

MaysonL2• 10 years ago

TextExpander or other macro generators are your friend. Type one keystroke, and a few dozen characters appear.

vidarh5• 10 years ago

Significant caps or caps used by convention to separate syntactic elements was quite common for a while when syntax highlighting was still relatively rare. E.g. AmigaE [1] is another language which heavily used caps (correct case was a compulsory part of the syntax).

You get used to it quickly, but I can't say I miss it.

[1] http://strlen.com/amiga-e

guitarbill• 10 years ago

caps in file extensions, how weird

A basic forking server in Oberon-2

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