Summary and Conclusions
This appendix is a report on a joint project with Microsoft Research whose goal is the implementation of Oberon as a research language on the .NET interoperability platform. We took the opportunity and slightly revised the original Oberon language and its object model. Our two conceptual main achievements are (1) a unified notion of active objects that subsumes (passive) objects and concurrency, and (2) a unified concept of abstraction called definition that subsumes the concepts of base class and interface.
The current version of the Active Oberon for .NET compiler uses a simple and fast, one-pass, recursive-descent strategy. It is reflectively programmed in Active Oberon for .NET and is able to self-compile. It makes ...
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