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by pjmlp 935 days ago
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.

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