Re:Active Oberon Language Report Update 2019
by pjmlp on Sunday November 17, 2019 @06:13AM
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Active Oberon is one of the final evolution paths that started with Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC and influenced Wirth's work on Oberon.
A full workstation OS, written in a strong type safe GC enabled systems language, providing UI interactions similar to Lisp and Smalltalk workstations from Xerox and Lisp Machines.
All of this in the mid-90s, where most PC users where still running Windows 3.x on their computers and Amiga was mostly coded in Assembly.
A full workstation OS, written in a strong type safe GC enabled systems language, providing UI interactions similar to Lisp and Smalltalk workstations from Xerox and Lisp Machines.
All of this in the mid-90s, where most PC users where still running Windows 3.x on their computers and Amiga was mostly coded in Assembly.
If you want some screenshots and overview of how it used to look like, https://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon§ion=co...