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by claudionaoto 1932 days ago
Oberon is case-sensitive and all keywords are all caps. I was curious to see it because I like Object Pascal/Delphi, that was the most distracting part of the language coming from Delphi standards.
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> Oberon is case-sensitive and all keywords are all caps. I was curious to see it because I like Object Pascal/Delphi, that was the most distracting part of the language coming from Delphi standards.

Yeah, it's horrible to see and worse to type. I took Oberon-2's grammar and changed it to a more Ada like one for a project I'm working on.

That approach used to be chosen by many languages, because it is the best alternative to syntax highlighting when none is available.