The Oberon programming language by Niklaus Wirth

8th January 2021 at 3:23am

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/index.html by Niklaus Wirth

Oberon is a beautifully designed programming language. It is both a high and low level language: Niklaus Wirth used it for his OS.

The Oberon manual (ProgrammingInOberon.pdf) is only 64 pages long. It explains all the features of the language and it's extremely easy to understand.

Oberon truly feels like the one imperative language to rule them all. I really wonder if the complexity of the other languages (Rust, Go, ...) is worth it.

Oberon feels a bit like Lua but with a type system.

I want to bring Oberon to modern architecture, maybe on top of another language (Go?) to make it easier to run on different OS.

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Backlinks: About this page, Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth, Julia programming language, Niklaus Wirth, Project Oberon (New Edition 2013) by Niklaus Wirth