> Well, Oberon Native's been around for years... =) I object to that callous remark on two grounds.
The the Oberon system is the inspiration for acme, which, given this mailing list, gives it some sort of place of honor, and the Oberon language is as flexible as one can get in a small, strongly typed language. C might even have evolved to meet Oberon in the middle of the language field, if it hadn't had pointer arithmetic. That stopped it cold. Not only do we now require function prototypes, we can even do typechecking of actual parameters against the format strings of print functions. In any event, suggestion that Ada and Oberon are in any way related in an insult. Langues have feelings too. :) http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/oreport.html (Is there a category for Languageist jokes? You know, like racist jokes only for programming langues? ``There are three languages in a boat, FORTRAN, Pascal, and C. FORTRAN says ... '')
