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On 06 Feb 96  4:10 pm, r.barton8@genie.com (Robert L Barton) writes:
  >  But apart from that
  > 
Oberon is an inferior notation and a real step backwards.
  > 


I think you missed the point about Oberon. It was not meant to be a 
development platform for consumer or industrial applications. It was 
intended to be platfrom independent, object oriented, and running on a 
virtual machine. The idea was that you could truck home with code you 
compiled under oberon on your Sun Station at work and run it on your 
OS/2 or Linux PeeCee at home. Call it an academic excercise if you will.

What this makes possible is to distribute processing between normally 
incompatible machines. 

Now I am not saying Oberon is bad language, but you're criticising it 
for not being what it was not designed to be. 

It's also where Sun got its ideas for Java from, but Java is far more C 
like. Under the hood, it's quite similar. 

Cheers,

Jan

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