Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!uunet!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.umass.edu!neural!gzenie From: gzenie@neural.hampshire.edu (Garth Zenie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: what is a pattern? Date: 8 Sep 1994 13:58:37 GMT Organization: Hampshire College Lines: 18 Message-ID: <34n5ad$36s@gort.oit.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: neural.hampshire.edu i've read the FAQ. beta seems like a _very_ interesting language but i'm having a hard time understanding what exactly a pattern is. could somebody who does perhaps explain to me (perhaps with some code examples). for some reason the explanation in the faq didn't click properly. also, in a previous append (one of the two) there was some simple benchmarking done. does anybody know if any extensive benchmarking has been done between moljner beta and other language (common lisp, smalltalk, c++, etc). finally, is is true that beta doesn't have multiple inheritence? if this is true and if any of the developers of beta are monitering this newsgroup, i would be curious what led to that descision. -- garth