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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Something is successful to the extent that it achieves its stated aims. I have used Oberon since (I think) the late 80s or early 90s, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen what you are describing stated
as one of its aims, by its authors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What I have seen is the ideas of Oberon increasingly, and often explicitly, adopted by more mainstream languages, such as Java, Go, C#. So it has at least been a very influential language / system,
and while the languages cited may fall some way short of the jewel-like perfection of Oberon, at least they are significant improvements on most their predecessors, thanks to Oberon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">For Oberon to have succeeded, it would have needed to be</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">embraced by *at least* one large platform provider. Microsoft</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">in the late 1990s would have been such a case, but ETH</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">completely missed out on that - even though they were</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">quite involved with Oberon on .Net around that time. In</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the end, Microsoft ended up releasing C#. That closed</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">that window of opportunity.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Today, I don’t think there is much chance that Oberon will</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ever come back to life again, as all major players (Microsoft,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Google, Apple, Linux/Unix..) now already have their own</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">“modern” languages (C#, Go, Swift, Java,..). Despite the</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">apparent weaknesses of some (all?) of these languages, they</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">won’t go away anytime soon. The investment is too high,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">the code base too large. The bandwagon has left.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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