Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!polly!wr From: wr@polly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Wilfried Rupflin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: YOO HOO! Anyone out there? Date: 14 Mar 1995 11:24:56 GMT Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany Lines: 36 Sender: wr@polly (Wilfried Rupflin) Distribution: world Message-ID: <3k3ue8$g44@fbi-news.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: polly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de In article , andrew@srsunc.shlrc.mq.edu.au (Andrew McVeigh) writes: |> In article house@helios.usq.EDU.AU (ron house) |> writes: |> [...] |> |> I hope that it's not dead -- I ordered my copy of it last week :-) BETA is not dead -- definitely! In Dortmund we are just beginning to use BETA on a wider scale in lectures and for various ambitious projects. |> I don't know exactly what is contributing to the low profile of the |> language at the moment, especially seeing as the language is so |> interesting and a very low cost personal version of the language is |> available from Mjolner systems. |> I guess that the Mjolner peoply make not enough noise about BETA (compared to Eiffel e.g.). And: when you look into some comp.lang.* you find a lot of articles of the type "Does anyone know how I can get around the xyz bug ..." which you find very seldom (if at all) in comp.lang.beta. Wilfried Rupflin *---------------------------------------------------------------* | Wilfried Rupflin | wr@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de | | | ___ | | Universitaet Dortmund | //// | | FB Informatik, IRB | UNI DO// | | Postfach 500 500 | Tel.: +49 231 755 2478 ___ //// | | D-44221 Dortmund 50 | Fax.: +49 231 755 2386 \*\\/// | | Germany | Telex: 822465 unido d \\\\/ | *---------------------------------------------------------------*