Oberon and its siblings are awesome. I believe that to fully appreciate Oberon & friends, you need to have a bit of context on its creation and usage.
Oberon is a language by Niklaus Wirth, so it is not a C-like language, it is a different branch of the Algol family, it is the Pascal branch were we have Pascal, Modula and Oberon (in their different versions).
This family of languages are very easy to port and to construct performant compilers. They are not only easy to learn from a student point of view but also can be used for real useful work.
In its home university in Zurich, they created the oberon system which is a computer hardware, operating system, programming language and userland applications solution that they used all over the university. This was done when GUIs and the Mac were in its starting years (circa 1987).
Sometimes I feel that Pascal and its successors are not fully appreciated by our world that grew too enamored with C. There were some awesome ideas and solutions created there in Switzerland at that time when create a full package of hardware and software was something that people still tried to do.
If you're interested in exploring things further here are some links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/
http://www.projectoberon.com/
Oberon is a language by Niklaus Wirth, so it is not a C-like language, it is a different branch of the Algol family, it is the Pascal branch were we have Pascal, Modula and Oberon (in their different versions).
This family of languages are very easy to port and to construct performant compilers. They are not only easy to learn from a student point of view but also can be used for real useful work.
In its home university in Zurich, they created the oberon system which is a computer hardware, operating system, programming language and userland applications solution that they used all over the university. This was done when GUIs and the Mac were in its starting years (circa 1987).
Sometimes I feel that Pascal and its successors are not fully appreciated by our world that grew too enamored with C. There were some awesome ideas and solutions created there in Switzerland at that time when create a full package of hardware and software was something that people still tried to do.
If you're interested in exploring things further here are some links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)
https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/
http://www.projectoberon.com/