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		pjmlp on July 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ownership and Borrowing in D For me the best version of it was Active Oberon, but I guess Wirth wouldn't agree given its pursuit for minimalism. Also I doubt he would bother to any further updates to Oberon-07 (2016 rev). Most likely busy with other matters nowadays.

atombender on July 16, 2019 [–]

Wirth — at the age of 85, no less! — is actively working on Oberon stuff, like the compiler. Here's his "news" file, which is up to date as of May 31, 2019:

http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/news.txt

pjmlp on July 17, 2019 | [–]

Oh! Thanks for the heads up.

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