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From: ralph@democracy.tiac.net (Ralph Mellor)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Java and Beta
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 23:52:57 GMT
Organization: Virtual Economy Associates
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I have been watching Beta since around the time it turned 13 years
old. I fell in love with it within a few days of encountering it.
Brief affairs with languages such as Eiffel, CLOS, and actor based
languages such as Vulcan notwithstanding, Beta has looked to me to be
the most beautiful engineering language available all these years and
it's still looking mighty fine.

Congratulations to Beta on reaching 21 (perhaps I am too early; what
was Beta's exact birthdate during '75?), and on the Windows releases.

I'd like to know if any effort has been put in to understanding how
Beta might best fit with the new platform paradigm represented by Java
and other such projects. Is anyone planning to write a Beta -> Java VM
code generator? What strategy should be adopted viz-a-viz AWT and/or
Lidskjalv?

PS. I believe that Beta was one of the principal languages from which
James Gosling, Java's creator, drew inspiration.

Ralf

"As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning,
 and meaningful statements lose precision" Lotfi Zadeh