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From: Magnus Jonsson <zeal@mail.kuriren.nu>
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Subject: Re: Beta compiler for win32
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:58:06 +0200
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I'd like to separate the language Beta and the libraries.
I'm impressed with beta, the language, not beta, the libraries it's got.
There are libraries for platform independent guis etc for c/c++ and other languages too.

Sascha Kimmel wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> BETA was not developed to offer a perfect system for demo and intro
> designers, instead the most important aspect of BETA is the platform
> independece and furthermore the GUI independence.
> You can create you own Window in BETA and compile the code on many different
> systems and it will look (nearly) the same - this is NOT possible with C++,
> because the different operating systems have different GUI environments and
> systems, making it nearly impossible to use the same code for a simple
> window on Windows on Unix with Motif e.g.
> 
> Regards,