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> Well, Oberon Native's been around for years... =)

I object to that callous remark on two grounds.

The the Oberon system is the inspiration for acme, which, given this
mailing list, gives it some sort of place of honor, and the Oberon
language is as flexible as one can get in a small, strongly typed
language.  C might even have evolved to meet Oberon in the middle of
the language field, if it hadn't had pointer arithmetic.  That stopped
it cold.  Not only do we now require function prototypes, we can even do
typechecking of actual parameters against the format strings of print
functions.

In any event, suggestion that Ada and Oberon are in any way related in
an insult.  Langues have feelings too. :)

http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/oreport.html

(Is there a category for Languageist jokes?  You know, like racist
jokes only for programming langues?  ``There are three languages in a
boat, FORTRAN, Pascal, and C.  FORTRAN says ...  '')