Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Oberon \Ob"er*on\ ([o^]b"[~e]r*[o^]n), n. [F., fr. OF. Auberon;
   prob. of Frankish origin.] (Medi[ae]val Mythol.)
   The king of the fairies, and husband of Titania or Queen Mab.
   --Shak.

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Oberon
     
         A {strongly typed} {procedural} programming
        language and an operating environment evolved from {Modula-2}
        by {Nicklaus Wirth} in 1988.  Oberon adds type extension
        ({inheritance}), extensible record types, multidimensional
        open arrays, and {garbage collection}.  It eliminates {variant
        records}, {enumeration types}, {subranges}, lower array
        indices and {for loops}.
     
        A successor called Oberon-2 by H. Moessenboeck features a
        handful of extensions to Oberon including type-bound
        procedures ({method}s).
     
        Seneca is a variant of Oberon focussing on numerical
        programming under development by R. Griesemer in April 1993
        (to be renamed).
     
        See also {Ceres workstation Oberon System}.
     
        {Home (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch)}.
     
        {(http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~laden/Oberon.html)}.
     
        {Free ETH Oberon (ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/Oberon)}.  {MS-DOS
        (ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/pgmutl/)}.  {Amiga
        (ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/amiga/fish/ff380)}.
     
        ["The Programming Language Oberon", N. Wirth, Soft Prac & Exp
        18(7):671-690 July 1988].
     
        ["Programming in Oberon: Steps Beyond Pascal and Modula",
        M. Reiser & N. Wirth, A-W 1992].
     
        ["Project Oberon: the design of an operating system and
        compiler", N. Wirth & J. Gutknecht, ACM Press 1992].
     
        ["The Oberon Companion: A Guide to Using and Programming
        Oberon System 3", Andre Fischer, Hannes Marais, vdf Verlag der
        Fachhochschulen, Zurich, 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2493-1.  Includes
        CD-ROM for Windows, Linux, Macintosh and PC Native].
     
        (1998-03-14)