Oberon

Description: Oberon is both a programming language and a whole software environment. The language component is a successor to Modula-2. The white paper seems to state that OO programming is possible without changing your style from the way you would write non-OO programs. Also, that Oberon uses an instance-centered OOP model. Specialization of record types is possible through "type extension". Roughly speaking, where other OO languages use "classes", Oberon uses "records"; "installed procedure variables" are roughly equivalent to "methods" .

History: The Oberon project was created by Niklaus Wirth (of Modula fame) and Jurg Gutknecht in 1985 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Latest version of ETH Oberon is 1.02alpha.

Applications: It's not clear what kind of applications exist under Oberon; when I find out more will update this.

Official Homepage: ETH Oberon Home Page

Newsgroup: comp.lang.oberon

Newsletter/magazine: none known

Related links: Wikipedia page for Oberon