[Oberon] Re: OLPC - One Laptop Per Child

[Alan Freed]

>No - but C hasn't got the benefits of 15 years of additional programming
>language experience and knowledge that influenced Oberon's design. It was
>bad enough that programmers in the 70's and 80's were subjected to the
>trials and tribulations of C - surely we can do better than that in 2006?
>C# is a notable improvement but still has inherited some of the
>deficiencies
>of C.

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