Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!not-for-mail From: Manmathan Muthukumarapillai Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: BETA good alternative to C/C++? Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:58:39 +0100 (MET) Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University Lines: 23 Approved: mailtonews@daimi.aau.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <199803041758.SAA23937@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: Manmathan Muthukumarapillai NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.daimi.aau.dk Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:11434 Philippe de Rochambeau writes: > > Is BETA a good alternative to C/C++, especially on the Macintosh? > > Is it a good cross-platform programming language? > > Philippe de Rochambeau > First of all BETA is a simple, very expressive and powerfull object-oriented programming language. It is indeed very easy to learn and use. Forget C/C++ and its variants, they give you headaches!!! I know that Mjolner System offered by Mjolner Informatics is a marvellos cross-platform development tool on Sun Solaris, Linux and Windows 95/NT, which are the platforms I am using. I do not know much about the other platforms. Yours manmathan kumar