Oberon-M MSDOS

Larry Smith smith at glinda.ctron.com
Sat Mar 23 07:02:58 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar22.185222.27204 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
>Ummmm ..... This has been discussed over and over and over ad nauseum.....
>>Oberon-M MSDOS (1/5)
>WHAT IS IT????? There is no statement of what it is!!!!

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.

Larry Smith
smith at ctron.com



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