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I am surprised that Oberon is relatively popular on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=oberon&sort=byDate&type=story https://h

• pjmlp 4y ago
  Because all of them represent what-ifs of how the computing industry could look today if their ideas would have been adopted in mainstream computing. Some of them actually were, however without the full package, they are a shadow of themselves.
  • rbanffy 4y ago
    Indeed. They suffered, however, from being perhaps too revolutionary. There was no need for vi to be a virtualisation tool instead of a text editor.