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Apparently, it didn't lead to a sustainable business model. (Well, they seem to have made it work for a surprisingly long time.) But eventually the company aban

Apparently, it didn't lead to a sustainable business model. (Well, they seem to have made it work for a surprisingly long time.) But eventually the company abandoned the product and made it available for free: http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html http://www.oberon.ch/blackbox.html Also, I think there is still quite an active community around BlackBox in Russia. Unfortunately, I don't speak Russian and cannot really provide any links to their forums, etc.

pjmlp 10y ago
That has been the problem with Wirth languages, he has written on an essay that he was kind of naïve to think that people would care for quality and flock to Algol derived languages. The Russians are quite active in all Oberon derived languages, not only CP. http://oberoncore.ru/ http://oberoncore.ru/ http://www.inr.ac.ru/~blackbox/ http://www.inr.ac.ru/~blackbox/ http://www.inr.ac.ru/~info21/ http://www.inr.ac.ru/~info21/