>>Why did Oberon become obsolete?<< 2nd paragraph -- "In his modest Swiss Engineer’s manner, and quite untypical for a celebrated academic, Wirth consistently

>>Why did Oberon become obsolete?<< 2nd paragraph -- "In his modest Swiss Engineer’s manner, and quite untypical for a celebrated academic, Wirth consistently avoided exploiting the initially high-speeding Pascal bandwagon for the purpose of “marketing” his subsequent ideas. Indeed, he even refrained from giving his later programming-language creations names such as “Pascal-2”, “Pascal Plus”, or “Pascal-2000” but instead opted first for “Modula”, and then “Oberon”. Both of these languages would probably have been considerably more successful if the connection to the Pascal legacy had been made in their name, but this would have run counter to Wirth’s view that a marketer he is not." Also see "Pascal and its Successors" http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/niklauswirth.php http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/niklauswirth.php