Appendix H. Active Oberon for .NET: A Case Study in Language Model Mapping
Jürg Gutknecht
Appendix H credit: Jürg Gutknecht, ETH Zürich.
Active Oberon is a substantial evolution of the programming language Oberon. It distinguishes itself by a novel object model and by its integration into the .NET language interoperability framework.
The three concepts characterizing Active Oberon are: (1) active object types, (2) a single and unifying notion of abstraction called definition, and (3) a static module construct. These concepts are, in fact, powerful combinations of concepts: Active objects integrate active behavior with reactive message handling; definitions unify the units of usage, implementation, and inheritance; and modules represent both package ...
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