[Oberon] V4 versus S3 survey

[Joh-Tob Schäg]

I apologize. I never used Oberon before and just following the mailing list
to learn more here and there. Some things really cry for a [citation
needed]. Pf you could back them up with a few reasons i could really lern
something about Oberon.

2017-11-21 17:07 GMT+01:00 Bob Walkden <bob at web-options.com>:

> Something is successful to the extent that it achieves its stated aims.
>
​I ​

​agree on that defintion. But it is wrong to apply in that case.

Something was succesfull if it archieved what in retrospect would have been
a good aim.

> What I have seen is the ideas of Oberon increasingly, and often
> explicitly,
>
​[citation needed]​


> 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,
>
​That has LISP-like snobishness to it. I like that but i would also like to
understand what justifies the use of such words.​


> at least they are significant improvements on most their predecessors,
> thanks to Oberon.
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>
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> Today, I don’t think there is much chance that Oberon will
>
> ever come back to life again, as all major players (Microsoft,
>
> Google, Apple, Linux/Unix..) now already have their own
>
> “modern” languages (
> ​​
> C#, Go, Swift, Java,..). Despite the
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> apparent weaknesses
>
​which weaknesses do have ​

​
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C#, Go, Swift, Java,.., Oberon has not? ​

> of some (all?) of these languages, they
>
> won’t go away anytime soon. The investment is too high,
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> the code base too large. The bandwagon has left.
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