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by mikewarot 973 days ago
I'm glad that Oberon is still in active development, it's great to have alternative operating systems, the more, the merrier.

If I were younger, and more sure of myself, I'd fork it, and "fix" a few things. I'd convert ARRAY OF CHAR in almost all cases to Free Pascal Style counted, reference counted, garbage collected, unlimited length AnsiString or WideString. (So they can contain NUL, and over a gigabyte of text).

I'd run it through NotePad++ and convert all tabs to spaces

I'd run as fast as I could towards Free Pascal compatible syntax, ditching case sensitivity and the non-standard # instead of <> for inequality.

Even though I'm older now, and more conservative... I still feel ---> <--- this close to being nerd sniped by it.

Oops... too late... I've been bit[0]

[0] https://github.com/mikewarot/OberonSystem3FP