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Speaking of smalltalk, was project Oberon inspired by Alan Kay's STEPS project to implement a full OS + apps in under 20k LoC? http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr200800

Speaking of smalltalk, was project Oberon inspired by Alan Kay's STEPS project to implement a full OS + apps in under 20k LoC? http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf

dang 11y ago
Oberon dates from the 80s, so much earlier. But they are clearly kindred spirits in wanting to make whole systems that a single person can understand.
pjmlp 11y ago
It was inspired by Cedar. Wirth took sabbatical years to work at Xerox PARC in the two occasions. After the first visit when we learned about Mesa, we designed Modula-2 and its OS Lillith. On the second visit he got to use Mesa evolution, Cedar, which was his inspiration for Oberon and the Ceres workstation.
- dang 11y ago
  Wow, that's fascinating.
- pjmlp 11y ago
  Replying to my own post. As it is already frozen for editing. Please note the sentence > After the first visit when we learned about Mesa, we designed Modula-2 and its OS Lillith. we is wrong! Stupid mobile autocorrection, it should be read he.