oberon

Oberon was an operating system as well as a language, and Oberon was an operating system without processes.

In the mid-90's while at the university I got to learn about Oberon and eventually had the Native Oberon running on my PC.

D, Modula-3 and the Oberon family are two examples of value types by default with a GC enabled heap.

Without wanting to take any credit from the author, allow me advertise my own Oberon information document.

It's certainly possible this is why programmable UIs like Oberon and Cedar never caught on, though.

Have to say, the claymation look of Dark Oberon looks pretty greate in the screenshots!

On the second visit he got to use Mesa evolution, Cedar, which was his inspiration for Oberon and the Ceres workstation.

However there were systems programming languages with GC, like Cedar, Oberon and Modula-3.

Enjoy the screenshots and links to Cedar and Oberon documentation.

I felt that Lola could play the same role for HDLs as Oberon for PLs, easing learning for beginners and relieving teachers from headaches.

There are GC enabled programming languages with global and stack static allocation, for example Oberon just to cite one, which was on top HN a few days ago.

I was just so excited to see Oberon on the front page.

That way people might stop asking me things like whether OS's can be written in "managed code." Stock reply: "type Niklaus Wirth or Oberon System into Google."

Modula-3, Eiffel, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal all offer the same data access patterns and packing available to C and C++.

Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, Modula-3, D, Eiffel all provide C++ like value types.

The interactive design could be added easily to a simple language/runtime like Oberon.