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		guard-of-terra on April 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel [pdf] But is it really that good today when we have Ruby, Scala, Go, Clojure and stuff? What are selling points today? Or is it a purely historic thing?

xradionut on April 25, 2013 [–]

Read the article or the Wirth's original book. Wirth and his colleage had some original ideas about programming languages, operating systems and user interfaces that were revolutionary for the day. They even built their own workstations from scratch to run them on.

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