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From: hal@pur-phy (Hal Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Oberon and PROGRAMMING IN MODULA-2, 4th edition
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Date: 20 Sep 89 11:54:36 GMT
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In article <22287@cup.portal.com> Matthew_Eric_Seitz@cup.portal.com writes:
>1.  About a year ago, a paper was posted describing a language called Oberon.
>Was this paper ever published, and where?  Have there been any other articles
>on the language?

Wirth, N. "From Modula to Oberon". SOFTWARE--PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE.
Vol. 18(7), 661-670 (July 1988).

Wirth, N. "The Programming Language Oberon". SOFTWARE--PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE.
Vol. 18(7), 671-690 (July 1988).

The facility of "Type Extension" is probably the most interesting new
feature of Oberon.  However, you may be upset (or at least surprised)
by the number of familiar prgramming structures that are gone.

-- 
Hal Chambers
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