Project Oberon cannot be his final word, given that it is only the first version, later upgraded up to System 3 version.
It is hard to consider them forks, when they originated on the same department and he also collaborated in some form.
Component Pascal and Zonnon, those are proper forks.
While I admire Wirth's work, his goal to pursue a minimalist Oberon with Oberon-07 is not so interesting to me.
My pocket phone is more powerful than any Xerox workstation, why should we keep searching for such minimalist endeavours, instead of the rich development experience provided by them.
Your pocket phone is more powerful than any Xerox workstation, but you and I are less powerful than Wirth, so if we want systems we can understand and restructure at will, they probably need to be simpler than what Wirth could handle, not more complex.
It is hard to consider them forks, when they originated on the same department and he also collaborated in some form.
Component Pascal and Zonnon, those are proper forks.
While I admire Wirth's work, his goal to pursue a minimalist Oberon with Oberon-07 is not so interesting to me.
My pocket phone is more powerful than any Xerox workstation, why should we keep searching for such minimalist endeavours, instead of the rich development experience provided by them.