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- From: smith@glinda.ctron.com (Larry Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: Oberon-M MSDOS
- Message-ID: <1352@glinda.ctron.com>
- Date: 22 Mar 91 21:02:58 GMT
-
- In article <1991Mar22.185222.27204@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
- >Ummmm ..... This has been discussed over and over and over ad nauseum.....
- >>Oberon-M MSDOS (1/5)
- >WHAT IS IT????? There is no statement of what it is!!!!
-
- Oberon-M is an MS-DOS implementation of Prof. Nicklaus Wirth's Oberon
- language, which is a Modula2-like language designed for his new workstation.
- It is distinguished by a sub-4000 line compiler implementation and the
- concept of type-extension, which allows you to define new types based on
- previously-defined types - similar to object inheritance, though it does
- not support encapsulation of methods with the types. They are used to
- implement opaque (abstract) data types, enabling an object-like style
- of programming without the usual overhead of a truly object-oriented
- language.
-
- Larry Smith
- smith@ctron.com
-