> why something like Oberon is better from a design standpoint It's not "better". Wirth simply left out everything that did not seem absolutely necessary to hi

> why something like Oberon is better from a design standpoint It's not "better". Wirth simply left out everything that did not seem absolutely necessary to him at the time. His colleague and he wanted to save work by doing this, i.e. to make their Oberon project at that time feasible for two developers on a part-time basis. With Oberon-07 he went even a step further in that direction.