[Oberon] Just Starting With Oberon2

[Chris Burrows]

> From: oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch
> [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of John Drake
> Sent: Saturday, 25 March 2006 9:28 AM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Just Starting With Oberon2
>
> > 1. Is Oberon still being actively developed?
>
> Oh.  That's a LOADED question.  Ok, ETH is
> actively (pardon the pun) developing "Active"
> Oberon AKA "BlueBottle".  It's compiler is a
> superset of Oberon-0.  (Read it's not Oberon-2
> compatible, though there are...or there at
> least HAVE been ways around that.)
>

ETH is also actively developing 'Zonnon', which, as far as I can tell, is a
superset of Oberon-2. It includes active objects, and also resurrects a
basic form of the Pascal Read and Write statements and the 'definition' and
'implementation' pairs and enumerated types from Modula-2.

http://www.zonnon.ethz.ch/

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp