Oberon

Oberon is yet another language by Niklaus Wirth which was developed as part of the Oberon system, a complete operating system environment. The Oberon language is a successor to Modula-2 and Pascal and incorporates record extensions to provide object-oriented programming support.

Development tools:

	ETH Oberon An implementation of the Oberon development environment for Windows.    ¤  Jul 1995. Freeware. Home site: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/
	Garden Point Component Pascal An implementation of Component Pascal (the successor language to Oberon) for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).    ¤  May 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://www.plasrc.qut.edu.au/ComponentPascal/
	Oberon for Dummies An easy-to-use version of the Oberon operating system for PCs which uses a file in a Windows partition to act as the disk for the Oberon file system.    ¤  May 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/
	Pow! The Programmer's Open Workbench for Windows. This includes an Oberon compiler, but it can also be used for Java and C++ development if you have the Sun JDK or GCC (g++) installed. C++ requires an extra plugin to be installed separately. Oberon source code is included.    ¤  Nov 2000. Freeware. Home site: http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/pow/pow.html

Tutorials and FAQs:

	An Overview of Oberon A brief description of the history and development of the Oberon language and operating system.    ¤  1996. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~oberon/intro.html (now gone)
	A Brief History of Pascal Historical background on the Wirth family of languages (Pascal, Modula-2, and especially Oberon, which evolved into Component Pascal) from Oberon Microsystems.    ¤  1997. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.oberon.ch/docu/history.html
	Object-Oriented Programming FAQ Frequently-asked questions about object-oriented programming in general.    ¤  2 Apr 1996. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.cyberdyne-object-sys.com/oofaq2/
	Object-Oriented Analysis and Design An introductory course.    ¤  1997. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.firstnet.co.uk/meniscus/oocnotes.htm (now gone)

Reference material:

	The Programming Language Oberon-2 The defining document for the Oberon-2 language.    ¤  Oct 1993. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www-vs.informatik.uni-ulm.de/projekte/Oberon-2.Report/
	The Component Pascal Language Report The defining document for Component Pascal, the successor to Oberon.    ¤  10 Sep 1997. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.oberon.ch/

External resources:

	The Oberon home page The primary Oberon website, based at ETH Zurich.
	Oberon links at Yahoo These are also available at Yahoo UK.
	The comp.lang.oberon newsgroup A newsgroup for discussions of Oberon-related issues.