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nit:

project oberon, though in many ways related, is by wirth.

you were probably thinking of alef (the early csp language) on plan9 (the bell-labs' research unix successor).

limbo and its os/vm inferno were an attempt to commercialise those ideas amid the java craze.



Only if you ignore all the Oberon versions that came after 1.0.

So if we are being pedantic, Oberon-V,

https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/handle/20....

Inferno is Plan 9's successor, and Limbo embodies the ideas that Alef failed to deliver, replaced by a C based library instead.

Regardless if Inferno and Limbo were a way to fight against Java based OSes, they failed in the market.


> Oberon-V [robert griesemer's phd]

thanks! i didn't know of this connection.


Which is basically the reason why Go has Oberon-2 method syntax and SYSTEM package as unsafe.




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