ETH.Oberon for rPi

Jun 10, 2014 0 Replies

Since you know that most M$ users don't know that there's a world beyond Windows, have you considered the world-beyond *nix. Although ETHO is a full OS & language, the rPi version actually rides-on-top-of linux, and gives you a superior user-interface.



I've been testing ALO [the rPi version] which is being ported by collaborators, centered at ETHZ [the Swiss technical university that Einstein]. This extract from a mail to snipped-for-privacy@lists.inf.ethz.ch gives a bit of the flavour:--------------------



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This is a further example for this very topic: for tasks which are too varied or rare, our Tool.* is more appropriate than the compositional-script that I'm suggesting. So, eg. Desktops.OpenDoc "

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BTW, I had which I'd previously fetched via links [text only - which showed the ASCII of the Latex], and it was interesting to note the revisions. But a [not really important] diagram was missing, so I fetched the stuff via a full-featured-browser.



IMPORTANTLY the ETHO version is the most valuable: = after you've manually edited the while you're spending time to study the text. = you can COLOR the related parts, according to *YOUR* understanding. = you can paste any important diagrams into the ETHO version. = you save the complete [but evolveable] ONE file, instead of the monster garbage directory, for the equivalent full-feature-browser.



ETHO is not just about the language. It's about the unique/economical-of-your-effort user experience.


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