Oberon (programming language) Wirth's way of inheritance reflecting the viewpoint of the parent site. Oberon was developed as part of the implementation of the Oberon operating system at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. The name is from the moon of Uranus, Oberon. Oberon is still maintained by Wirth and the latest revision is dated August 4, 2018. Oberon is designed with a motto attributed to Albert Einstein in mind: “Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.” The principal guideline was to concentrate on features that are basic and essential and to omit ephemeral issues. Another factor was recognition of the growth of
Oberon (operating system) 2002.<br> BB, BlackBox Component Builder. Component Pascal IDE from Oberon Microsystems.<br> Bluebottle OS, And again another name for the Active Object System, 2003.<br> BRAM, Block Addressable Random Access Memory, as used in the FPGA machine.<br> CP, Component Pascal. A dialect in the Oberon family most similar to Oberon-2.<br> ETHO, Oberon as developed at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich.<br> Fox, The compiler for Active Oberon, appearing in AOS (= A2 = Bluebottle).<br> LEO, Linux ETH Oberon. ETHO 2.4.3 for Linux x86.<br> LNO, Linux Native Oberon.<br> NO, Native Oberon. Oberon running on bare hardware rather than atop another operating system.<br> OLR, Oberon