Component Pascal
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Component Pascal is a programming language in the tradition of Oberon and Oberon-2, the last language Niklaus Wirth designed before he retired in 1999. It is a minor refinement of Oberon-2, designed and supported by a small ETHZ spin-off company called Oberon microsystems. Their IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is called "BlackBox Component Framework". It presents a novel approach to graphical user interface (GUI) construction based on editable forms, where fields and command buttons are linked to exported variables and executable procedures.
Component Pascal bears the name "Pascal", but is actually a variant of Oberon, and is not compatible with the language Pascal.
There is also an Open Source implementation of Component Pascal for the .NET and JVM platforms from the Gardens Point team around John Gough in Queensland, Australia.
On June 23, 2004 Oberon Microsystems announced that the BlackBox Component Framework is available as free download and that an open source version is planned. On 30th of December they have put an open source version as beta version on their web page, which includes the complete source.
External links
- Oberon microsystems (http://www.oberon.ch/sitemap.html)
- FreeWare announcement (http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~bernhard/BlackBoxFreewareAnnouncement.pdf)
- Language Report (http://www.oberon.ch/pdf/CP-Lang.pdf)
- More Information about the BlackBox Component Framework (http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html)
- Gardens Point Component Pascal (http://www.citi.qut.edu.au/members/research_areas/plas/projects/cp_files/index.jsp)