A really neat exploration of the Oberon operating system and programming language by : youtube.com/watch?v=OJGnpm
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Really reminds me of Smalltalk and Glamorous Toolkit - especially the hypertext documents with embedded GUI widgets:
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Also of the Symbolics Lisp Machine:
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Direct from the formatted Documentation in the Lisp Listener (the REPL of the Lisp Machine), we can execute commands to edit the definition of DEFCLASS and also the corresponding documentation. Editing documentation is also live - just as changing and recompiling the code is.
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Yeah me too. Would be really cool to figure out how to claw our way back to this world. 🥺
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My first year at IBM Research, as a postdoc, was spent writing an IDE for Oberon as IBM decided it was the next great language for teaching. If only....
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This was in 1992, for clarity.