>It'd be nice if you sent an 'intro' to the list describing what you do
>and how you use the framework (ofcourse this is completly optional).
Hi everyone!
(How many people are subscribed so far? One? Two? :-) )
I'm glad to see there's now a mailing list devoted to Oberon/F (thanks Guy!).
I've only recently begun using Oberon/F, and some of the questions or
comments I've had so far seem a little too Oberon/F-specific to be in
comp.lang.oberon. Hopefully someone at Oberon Microsystems will answer
questions from time to time -- I've noticed that they are not very visible on
comp.lang.oberon, although they do seem very good at responding to personal
e-mails.
As for my introduction, my name is Marc Martin, and I am an aerospace
engineer at the Boeing Commercial Space Company in Seattle Washington USA. I
am using the commercial Windows version 1.11 on a Pentium running Windows 95.
Oberon/F is my first experience in programming in Oberon-2, but I have been
programming in Modula-2 since 1989, and prior to that in Pascal since 1986.
My first task with Oberon/F is to port all of my existing Modula-2 programs
to the framework, which I am currently in the middle of. Some of these
programs are compute intensive number crunchers, and some might say they
should be written in Fortran, but I know better... :-) For those that are
interested, these programs perform launch vehicle and spacecraft trajectory
optimization.
I plan to use the Oberon/F framework instead of Microsoft's WIN32 API's, so I
will probably be suggesting new features and capabilities be added to the
framework so that I don't have to learn WIN32. It's my opinion that WIN32 is
way too complex for engineers, but the Oberon/F framework seems to be at a
very appropriate level of complexity.
One thing I'd like to mention that I haven't seen much mention of -- the
hypertext link features in Oberon/F make writing online documentation a real
joy! (Or at least, less of a pain-in-the-neck than writing documentation
usually is... :-) )
-- Marc Martin, marc.martin@msd.ds.boeing.com