Oberon-2
Oberon-2 is a programming language created in 1991. Oberon-2 is an extension of the original Oberon programming language that adds limited reflection and object-oriented programming facilities, open arrays as pointer base types, read-only field export and reintroduces the FOR loop from Modula-2. It was developed in 1991 at ETH Zurich by Niklaus Wirth and Hanspeter Mössenböck, who is now at Institut für Systemsoftware (SSW) of the University of Linz, Austria. Oberon-2 is a superset of Oberon, and is fully compatible with it. Read more on Wikipedia...
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- Oberon-2 first appeared in 1991
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- See also: oberon, modula-2, pascal, go, object-oberon, smalltalk, python, java, algol, yacc, javascript, powerpc
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Example code from Wikipedia:
Module = MODULE ident ";" [ImportList] DeclSeq [BEGIN StatementSeq] END ident ".". ImportList = IMPORT [ident ":="] ident {"," [ident ":="] ident} ";". DeclSeq = { CONST {ConstDecl ";" } | TYPE {TypeDecl ";"} | VAR {VarDecl ";"}} {ProcDecl ";" | ForwardDecl ";"}. ConstDecl = IdentDef "=" ConstExpr. TypeDecl = IdentDef "=" Type. VarDecl = IdentList ":" Type. ProcDecl = PROCEDURE [Receiver] IdentDef [FormalPars] ";" DeclSeq [BEGIN StatementSeq] END ident. ForwardDecl = PROCEDURE "^" [Receiver] IdentDef [FormalPars]. FormalPars = "(" [FPSection {";" FPSection}] ")" [":" Qualident]. FPSection = [VAR] ident {"," ident} ":" Type. Receiver = "(" [VAR] ident ":" ident ")". Type = Qualident | ARRAY [ConstExpr {"," ConstExpr}] OF Type | RECORD ["("Qualident")"] FieldList {";" FieldList} END | POINTER TO Type | PROCEDURE [FormalPars]. FieldList = [IdentList ":" Type]. StatementSeq = Statement {";" Statement}. Statement = [ Designator ":=" Expr | Designator ["(" [ExprList] ")"] | IF Expr THEN StatementSeq {ELSIF Expr THEN StatementSeq} [ELSE StatementSeq] END | CASE Expr OF Case {"|" Case} [ELSE StatementSeq] END | WHILE Expr DO StatementSeq END | REPEAT StatementSeq UNTIL Expr | FOR ident ":=" Expr TO Expr [BY ConstExpr] DO StatementSeq END | LOOP StatementSeq END | WITH Guard DO StatementSeq {"|" Guard DO StatementSeq} [ELSE StatementSeq] END | EXIT | RETURN [Expr] ]. Case = [CaseLabels {"," CaseLabels} ":" StatementSeq]. CaseLabels = ConstExpr [".." ConstExpr]. Guard = Qualident ":" Qualident. ConstExpr = Expr. Expr = SimpleExpr [Relation SimpleExpr]. SimpleExpr = ["+" | "-"] Term {AddOp Term}. Term = Factor {MulOp Factor}. Factor = Designator ["(" [ExprList] ")"] | number | character | string | NIL | Set | "(" Expr ")" | " ~ " Factor. Set = "{" [Element {"," Element}] "}". Element = Expr [".." Expr]. Relation = "=" | "#" | "<" | "<=" | ">" | ">=" | IN | IS. AddOp = "+" | "-" | OR. MulOp = "*" | "/" | DIV | MOD | "&". Designator = Qualident {"." ident | "[" ExprList "]" | " ^ " | "(" Qualident ")"}. ExprList = Expr {"," Expr}. IdentList = IdentDef {"," IdentDef}. Qualident = [ident "."] ident. IdentDef = ident [" * " | " - "].
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