Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf] | Hacker News
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it unfortunately was totally overshadowed by Java.
Prof Franz did his PhD under Niklaus Wirth.
It's still one of my favorite papers
Semantic Dictionary Encoding
actually implementing SDE properly
on trace trees
I do want to eventually retarget it to SDE, but it's unlikely to happen this year...
beat the disk IO cost
data compression algorithms
do parsing, semantic analysis, and compilation to bytecode
gzip compression of source code on one side of the network
it's fiendishly complex
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