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'''Oberon''' is a general-purpose [[programming language]] first published in 1987 by [[Niklaus Wirth]] and the latest member of the Wirthian family of [[ALGOL]]-like languages ([[Euler (programming language)|Euler]], [[ALGOL W]], [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], [[Modula]], and [[Modula-2]]).<ref name=ETH>{{Cite report |last=Wirth |first=Niklaus |title=From Modula to Oberon and the programming language Oberon |series=ETH Technical Reports D-INFK |year=1987 |volume=Band 82 |publisher=Wiley |doi=10.3929/ethz-a-005363226 |url=https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005363226}}</ref><ref name=PLO>{{Cite journal |last=Wirth |first=Niklaus |date=July 1988 |title=The Programming Language Oberon |journal=Software: Practice and Experience |volume=18 |issue=7 |pages=661–670|doi=10.1002/spe.4380180706 |s2cid=130922794380180707 }}</ref><ref name=M2O>{{Cite reportjournal |last=Wirth |first=Niklaus |date=July 1988 |title=From Modula to Oberon |journal=Software: Practice and Experience |volume=18 |issue=7 |pages=671–690|doi=10.1002/spe.4380180706 |s2cid=13092279}}</ref><ref name=TE>{{Cite journal |last=Wirth |first=Niklaus |date=April 1988 |title=Type Extensions |journal=ACM Transactions on Programming Languages |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=204–214|doi=10.1145/42190.46167 |s2cid=15829497 }}</ref> Oberon was the result of a concentrated effort to increase the power of [[Modula-2]], the direct successor of [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], and simultaneously to reduce its complexity. Its principal new feature is the concept of type extension of record types.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pountain |first=D. March 1991 |title=Modula's Children, Part II: Oberon |url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1991-03/1991_03_BYTE_16-03_Network_Management#page/n187/ |magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]] |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=135–142}}</ref> It permits constructing new data types on the basis of existing ones and to relate them, deviating from the dogma of strictly [[static typing]] of data. Type extension is Wirth's way of inheritance reflecting the viewpoint of the parent site. Oberon was developed as part of the implementation of an [[operating system]], also named [[Oberon (operating system)|Oberon]] at [[ETH Zurich]] in [[Switzerland]]. The name was inspired both by the Voyager space probe's pictures of the moon of the planet [[Uranus]], named [[Oberon (moon)|Oberon]], and because Oberon is famous as the king of the elfs.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Wirth |first1=Niklaus |last2=Gutknecht |first2=Jürg |author-link=Jürg Gutknecht |date=1987–2021 |url=https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf |title=Project Oberon}}</ref>
Oberon is still maintained by Wirth and the latest Project Oberon compiler update is dated 6 March 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wirth |first=Niklaus |title=Oberon Change Log |url=https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/news.txt |publisher=ETH Zurich |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref>
