Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!ifi.uio.no!sia.sics.se!eua.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!convex!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au!newshost.ocs.mq.edu.au!andrew From: andrew@srsunc.shlrc.mq.edu.au (Andrew McVeigh) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: YOO HOO! Anyone out there? Date: 13 Mar 95 16:14:05 Organization: SHLRC, Macquarie University Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: andrew@srsuna.shlrc.mq.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: srsunc.shlrc.mq.edu.au In-reply-to: house@helios.usq.EDU.AU's message of Mon, 13 Mar 1995 02:45:43 GMT In article house@helios.usq.EDU.AU (ron house) writes: > Sorry for the funny header. I posted my question before with a > sensible header and no-one answered. > > Does anyone know where to download a reasonably-sized description > of the Beta language? > I don't know if it is what you want, but there are some WWW pages with suitable tutorial type information in them. Try the following site: http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~beta/info I bought the book "OO Programming in the Beta Language" and I found it very helpful and worthwhile. It is a fascinating language... > Does anyone know, or is Beta in fact dead? > I hope that it's not dead -- I ordered my copy of it last week :-) 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. > -- > > Ron House. USQ | A nonviolent diet is the > (house@usq.edu.au) Toowoomba, Australia. | foundation for a nonviolent world. -- "Love your neighbour as yourself" | Andrew McVeigh Jesus Christ +-----------------