Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!jacobse
From: jacobse@daimi.aau.dk (Jacob Seligmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: BETA and X-Windows (was: Re: LISP and X-Windows)
Date: 14 Sep 1994 09:42:03 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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References: <34pog5$lss@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <34t9k3$2g5@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Keywords: beta, lisp, clim, clx, ew, clio, clue, garnet

Thus spake haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible):

> When I contrast this situation in Lisp and C to the tiny X11 Hello-World
> program for Beta:
> 
> AwEnv
> (# hello: @Label;
> do hello.init; 
>    'Hello World' -> hello.label 
> #) 
> 
> I can only keep wondering: How do you get Hello-World programs that small?

Using computed remote, you can express the entire X11 Hello-World 
program in a single imperative:

AwEnv(# do (&label(# init:: (# do 'Hello world' -> label #) #)[]).init #)

I'm not sure that this increases the readability, I just couldn't 
resist myself. :-)

Cheers,

/Jacob Seligmann
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