< language > A strongly typed procedural programming language and an operating environment evolved from Modula-2 by Nicklaus Wirth in 1988. Oberon adds type extension ( inheritance ), extensible record types, multidimensional open arrays, and garbage collection . It eliminates variant records , enumeration types , subranges , lower array indices and for loops .
A successor called Oberon-2 by H. Moessenboeck features a handful of extensions to Oberon including type-bound procedures ( method s).
Seneca is a variant of Oberon focussing on numerical programming under development by R. Griesemer in April 1993 (to be renamed).
See also Ceres workstation Oberon System .
Home .
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~laden/Oberon.html .
Free ETH Oberon . MS-DOS . Amiga .
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