On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:38:36 -0400 Aaron Burrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> What do you think of minix 3? > > > cd ~/code/minix > > find . -name "*.c" -or -name "*.h" | xargs wc -l > ... > 342686 total It would be comparing apples and oranges. Excluding Verilog sources, whole Oberon system is under ten thousand lines of source code. Compiler itself is about 3KLOC. Even when you take into account that code is written in denser style than idiomatic C, it is still small. As a side note: limited RISC platform constructed by Wirth has only 16 opcodes. I think this is one of the reasons why emulator for this platform could be written using less than one thousand lines of C code. You could read Project Oberon in your spare time e.g. on crapper (this is place of enlightenment according to Breaking Bad) and understand how exactly it works from top to bottom. In many ways Oberon is primitive, yet I perceive that as strength for what it is. -- Paul Onyschuk
