> Having created PASCAL, MODULA and MODULA-2, Wirth set out to develop the OBERON family of languages in order to build his operating system on his workstation.
This is not quite true.
Modula and Modula-2 originated from Wirth's first sabattical at Xerox PARC, where he got acquaited with Mesa and the XDE development environment, back at ETHZ he created Modula/-2 and the Lillith OS.
On his second sabattical at Xerox PARC, Mesa had evolved into Mesa/Cedar, and that was the genesis for Oberon, his second workstation OS.
Also although I appreciate Wirth's work, for me the best languages were Modula-2, and Active Oberon, while the best Pascal dialect is indeed what Apple and Borland did with it.
I am not a fan of Wirth's later pursue for the minimalist GC systems language design.
This is not quite true.
Modula and Modula-2 originated from Wirth's first sabattical at Xerox PARC, where he got acquaited with Mesa and the XDE development environment, back at ETHZ he created Modula/-2 and the Lillith OS.
On his second sabattical at Xerox PARC, Mesa had evolved into Mesa/Cedar, and that was the genesis for Oberon, his second workstation OS.
Also although I appreciate Wirth's work, for me the best languages were Modula-2, and Active Oberon, while the best Pascal dialect is indeed what Apple and Borland did with it.
I am not a fan of Wirth's later pursue for the minimalist GC systems language design.