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> Well, it doesn't just look that way they really did have a lot of fun. In fact that's really all they could do is have fun and more fun and more on top of that, until it wasn'…
by throw0101d · Nov 8, 2026
The idea was to migrate representative C, C++, Pascal and Oberon implementations to Micron to see whether the language is descriptive and practical enough, and indeed I made a l…
by Rochus · Nov 8, 2026
Love the examples you've implemented in Micron: The examples subdirectory ( https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron/tree/master/examples ) con…
by andsoitis · Nov 8, 2026
Congratulations! I've always been super interested in Oberon (due to my Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi heritage) and even tried things like A2 ( https://en.…
by andsoitis · Nov 8, 2026
I think what is obvious now wasn’t obvious then. If you think about how Linux and the open source community rallied around C, this was at complete odds to what was being taught…
by fps-hero · Nov 8, 2026
It was probably the first book on data structures and algorithms I came to possess (likely from a library book sale as a teen), so I would say I learned a lot from it, but don't…
by so-cal-schemer · Nov 8, 2026
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