Oberon definition
<language> A strongly typed procedural programming
language and an operating environment evolved from Modula-2
by Nicklaus Wirth in 1988. Oberon adds type extension
(inheritance), extensible record types, multidimensional
open arrays, and garbage collection. It eliminates variant
records, enumeration types, subranges, lower array
indices and for loops.
A successor called Oberon-2 by H. Moessenboeck features a
handful of extensions to Oberon including type-bound
procedures (methods).
Seneca is a variant of Oberon focussing on numerical
programming under development by R. Griesemer in April 1993
(to be renamed).
See also Ceres workstation Oberon System.
Home.
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~laden/Oberon.html.
Free ETH Oberon. MS-DOS. Amiga.
["The Programming Language Oberon", N. Wirth, Soft Prac & Exp
18(7):671-690 July 1988].
["Programming in Oberon: Steps Beyond Pascal and Modula",
M. Reiser & N. Wirth, A-W 1992].
["Project Oberon: the design of an operating system and
compiler", N. Wirth & J. Gutknecht, ACM Press 1992].
["The Oberon Companion: A Guide to Using and Programming
Oberon System 3", André Fischer, Hannes Marais, vdf Verlag der
Fachhochschulen, Zurich, 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2493-1. Includes
CD-ROM for Windows, Linux, Macintosh and PC Native].
(1998-03-14)
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