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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.

[pjmlp]

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.

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> Oberon-V [robert griesemer's phd]

thanks! i didn't know of this connection.

[pjmlp]

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