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

[chris at cfbsoftware.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On 
> Behalf Of Jörg Straube
> Sent: Friday, 26 February 2016 4:37 PM
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Why Oberon-2 and Component Pascal is 
> more popular thanOberon-7?
>  
> 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
> 

Actually Oberon-07 has been around longer than that. The earliest Oberon-07
Language Report we have is dated 1st Dec 2007 (hence Oberon-07) - 8 years
ago. We released and marketed our first commercial ARM7 version (for the NXP
LPC2000 family of Microcontrollers) based on Wirth's original ARM compiler
just over a year later in January 2009. The system was called Armaide at
that time - we changed the name in 2010 to Astrobe following a request from
ARM for us to refrain from using 'arm' as any part of a product name,

Regards,
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.astrobe.com