[Oberon] 30th anniversary of Oberon

[rochus.keller at bluewin.ch]

@  Chris Burrows

Thanks for the information. There seems to be a contradiction with "The Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III)" (2007, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1238844.1411838) which states on page 3-8:

"The first ideas leading to Oberon were drafted in 1985, and the
language was fully defined in early 1986 in close cooperation
with J. Gutknecht. The report was only 16 pages long [28].
[...] The
entire system was programmed by Gutknecht and the author as a
spare time activity over more than two years as described in [31].
The system was released in 1989".

[28] points to "The Programming Language Oberon", Software - Practice and
Experience, 18, 7 (July 1988), pp. 671-690.

That's one of the reasons why usually official publication dates are used, such as the 1987 https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005363226.

Best
R.


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From: Chris Burrows
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Subject: Re: [Oberon] 30th anniversary of Oberon

2011 wasn't the birthday of the Oberon language (report / compiler / implementation / whatever) - it was the anniversary of the start of Project Oberon.

"Programming was started in early 1986, and a first version of the system was released in the fall of 1988". (Project Oberon - The Design of an Operating System and Compiler)

Regards,
Chris Burrows
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