Oberon-M MSDOS

[root@research.bdi.com Systems Research Supervisor]

In article <1352 at glinda.ctron.com> smith at glinda.ctron.com (Larry Smith) writes:
=>
=>Oberon-M is an MS-DOS implementation of Prof. Nicklaus Wirth's Oberon
=>language, which is a Modula2-like language designed for his new workstation.
=>It is distinguished by a sub-4000 line compiler implementation and the
=>concept of type-extension, which allows you to define new types based on
=>previously-defined types - similar to object inheritance, though it does
=>not support encapsulation of methods with the types.  They are used to
=>implement opaque (abstract) data types, enabling an object-like style
=>of programming without the usual overhead of a truly object-oriented
=>language.
=>
   And last I heard, Oberon had gotten rid of for loops, reasoning that
they were just a special case of while loops. Therefore, as far as I can
tell, this is just another Wirth language that nobody is expected to ever
use.

=>Larry Smith
=>smith at ctron.com

                                        Gary Duzan
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