Design Goals
Oberon is designed to be a 'safe' language; it employs array bounds checking, garbage collection and strong type checking. These features, particularly ones which enable logic errors to be detected as early as possible (i.e. at compile-time), can significantly reduce the number of bugs occurring in a program at runtime. However, some features included in other languages in an attempt to reduce bugs (e.g. enumerations and programmer-defined ranges on integers), were omitted. Consequently, more care should be taken by the programmer, when working with numeric expressions, to avoid logic errors.
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