![]() ![]() Oberon is designed with a motto attributed to Albert Einstein in mind: “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” The principal guideline was to concentrate on features that are basic and essential and to omit ephemeral issues. Oberon is still maintained by Wirth and the latest Project Oberon compiler update is dated 6 March 2020. The name is from the moon of the planet Uranus, named Oberon. Oberon was developed as part of the implementation of an operating system, also named Oberon at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Type extension is Wirth's way of inheritance reflecting the viewpoint of the parent site. It permits constructing new data types on the basis of existing ones and to relate them, deviating from the dogma of strictly static typing of data. ![]() Its principal new feature is the concept of type extension of record types. ![]() Oberon was the result of a concentrated effort to increase the power of Modula-2, the direct successor of Pascal, and simultaneously to reduce its complexity. Oberon is a general-purpose programming language first published in 1987 by Niklaus Wirth and the latest member of the Wirthian family of ALGOL-like languages ( Euler, ALGOL W, Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2). Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Zonnon, Go, Nim, Active Oberon, Component Pascal Windows, Linux, Solaris, classic Mac OS, Atari TOS, AmigaOS ![]()
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