niklaus

Oberon is an already-built system designed by Niklaus Wirth, one of the giants of the field.

On a similar note, there is the Niklaus Wirth rant about complexity as well on his ACM Turing Award speech.

Michael Franz as well, who in turn did his PhD studies under Niklaus Wirth.

His name is Niklaus Wirth, for anyone who might not have known...

Check Niklaus Wirth work on Modula-2 and Oberon, and its respective OS.

I had a Professor who had worked on Modula&Oberon with Niklaus Wirth, though he later moved on to Sun Java.

Mesa is where Niklaus Wirth got his inspiration for creating Modula-2.

And the fact that your operating system is the actual language you're coding with, reminds me of the fantastic project by Niklaus Wirth, The Project Oberon.

> actually made by the same person who initially wrote Pascal Niklaus Wirth, for those interested.

It is specifically Oberon-07[0], a 2007 revision of the original Oberon from 1986, which is still being worked on by Niklaus Wirth with updates as recently as this year.

His editor Niklaus Wirth (yes, the guy who created Pascal and a ton of other languages) renamed it because he wanted to get people's attention and rustle some jimmies.

Fanboys and fellow travelers aside, one of the few persons with a similar point of view that I can think of would be Niklaus Wirth.

Yes, you can start with the 2013 review of the "Project Oberon" book, that Niklaus Wirth made by Oberon's anniversary.

I suggest you read "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" by Niklaus Wirth.

As part of the Niklaus Wirth Birthday Symposium to celebrate his 80th birthday he also gave a talk titled "Reviving a computer system of 25 years ago" (Abstract[0], Slides[1], Video[2]).

That way people might stop asking me things like whether OS's can be written in "managed code." Stock reply: "type Niklaus Wirth or Oberon System into Google."

Niklaus Wirth would be pleased to hear that, since he designed Pascal to be a teaching language.

Niklaus Wirth originally designed P-Code with the intent to make Pascal compilers easier to port.

Niklaus Wirth would be pleased to hear that.