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From: xmobay@thegrid.net (Trevor Longbow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: BETA under NT 4.0?
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 20:29:42 GMT
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Hey now.

I'm a longtime software engineer whose favorite language heretofore
has been modula-2. I've always thought coroutines rock! I've also
programmed massive projects in Ada, and I've been looking at modula-3
lustfully, but I haven't installed anything.

Anyone who is well-read in software engineering has no doubt had
"simula" ringing in his ears at sme point. Well, I was re-reading
Bertrand Meyer's "Object-oriented Software Construction" and it struck
me that, in some very real sense, almost all the programming
languages, procedural and object-oriented both, that come after Simula
have borrowed SO MANY concepts and techniques from Simula, that Simula
ought to be rightfully considered the "Lewis and Clark" of software
engineering.

Anyway, the cleanliness of the Simula examples in Meyer's book have
induced me to look into, and maybe get seriously involved with,
Simula.

Interestingly, though there is supposed to be a comp.lang.simula NG,
my ISP isn't carrying it. However, it was stated on the Web at

     http://www.cyberdyne-object-sys.com/oofaq/oo-faq-S-1.22.html

that

     "Self is somewhat of a Smalltalk-based next generation language,
      as is BETA a followup to Simula (by its original designers)."

So I'm thinking, BETA must be the way to go for simula-interested
parties. You know, Beta is all Simula and more...

FINALLY, THE QUESTION

I'm running NT 4.0 and I have VC++ 5.0 installed. Can I get a version
of Beta that will run under NT 4.0?

Thank you all.

Longbow
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