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The Pow! Oberon-2 User Group has been announced. It is a group for the discussion of Pow!, an Oberon-2 implementation and development environment for Windows.

Oberon Day 2007 has been announced. "The Oberon Day welcomes delegates from industry and academia who are interested in developing highest quality software in terms of reliability, safety and efficiency. Participants will get an insight into highly advanced custom systems that have emerged from the long-term collaboration of experts from science and industry. The Oberon Day is, in particular, a platform where Oberon users and developers can share their experiences."

It will be held on June 29, 2007, in Zurich, Switzerland.

A technical report entitled 'Oberon Script. A Lightweight Compiler and Runtime System for the Web' (~50 KB .pdf), by Ralph Sommerer, is now available.

"Oberon Script is a scripting language and runtime system for build- ing interactive Web Client applications. It is based on the Oberon programming language and consists of a compiler that translates Oberon Script at load-time into JavaScript code, and a small runtime system that detects and compiles script sections written in Oberon Script."

Optimizing Oberon-2 Compiler 2.1.10 has been released. It is a portable, open-source Oberon-2 development system.

This release includes fixes for type guards involving type variables, LSH and ROT to the right for types smaller than 32 bits, exported but unnamed record pointers, plus other fixes.

Chris Burrows has announced that he has a prototype of a Pascal-to-Oberon translator written. He is interested in knowing if it would be of use to anyone before proceeding any further.

Optimizing Oberon-2 Compiler 2.1.9 has been released. OOC is an Oberon-2 development system.

This release includes a new Lookup() method for Dictionary, emitted code that compiles cleanly with GCC 4.x, plus bugfixes and other changes.