Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!glad From: Albertina Lourenci Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: the plasticity of the BETA language Date: 21 Dec 1995 22:23:18 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 34 Approved: mailtonews@daimi.aau.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <4bcmom$7es@krone.daimi.aau.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.daimi.aau.dk Dear Richard Thomas: Of course it is necessary to take a longer time to dialogue about your suggestions. I am aware that even a paper will not contribute to compare different languages. Anyhow I will make an endeavour to summarize in few words why BETA fits my ecodesign model and why the other languages do not fit it. The way Booch discusses it is easy to grasp why one language is better, superior or at least fits a project better. If I have a sophisticated model and only one language enables me to implement it in a seamless process, I cannot agree "with a framework that coopts you to agree that any language may be OK|" I am rather an artist and even in art things are not chaotic. Of course to develop a software has something of the nature of the artistic process but at least highly educated art theorists do not discuss in a chaotic manner. To the contrary to deal with art theory is an enlightening, superior experience unraveling a superior order. And above all I have never seen an artist harming the other professional's interests and especially mankind's interests the way computer scientists do. Enough for today. When my tecnichal report is ripe I will post it. Do not worry I will post the references and quotations included the pages where it can be found easily. Indeed the actual production in object oriented programming already offers conditions to orient the interdisciplinary users with greater wisdom. The majority continues to program in Fortran, Pascal and C due to lack of orientation. And as far as I know this is not typical only of a Third World country. Most of the professionals with a PH.D. degree in Brazil were awarded these titles in First World institutions and they program at best in C. Merry Green Xmas, Albertina Lourenci Ph.D. student at Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism University of Sao Paulo Brazil E-mail: Al at vmcisc.cisc.sc.usp.br