[Oberon] Why Oberon-2 and Component Pascal is more popular than Oberon-7?

[Jörg Straube]

Hi Srinivas

I don't know exactly but I could imagine it has to do something with the "age" of the language.

It normally takes some time until a thing invented at an university hits the market.

Oberon-2 is 25 years old.
Oberon-7 is 3 years old and still being modified slightly

Jörg

> Am 26.02.2016 um 04:41 schrieb Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com>:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Why Oberon-2 and Component Pascal is more popular than Oberon-7?
> I see many compilers are out there for Oberon-2 and Component Pascal but not a single one for Oberon-7...
> 
> What are the features that make them popular?
> Is Oberon-7 lacking something, and that is why it is not useful for practical real world programming?
> 
> 
> With thanks and best regards,
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
> 
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