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Subject: Re: Is BETA for me?
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I too thought to use BETA as a transportable development environment,
and after obtaining the (free) CD-ROM from Mjolner I have been able to
develop and transport program across both Windows NT and Linux
without any problems _ except_ for the GUI interface !! ,  ( no
problems with TEXT based interface).

Under Windows the GUI is _not_ Windows Standard, and exhibts a number
of  user/developer interface worries.

eg: 
	1) TAB / Back TAB does _not_ 'navigate' to the next/previous
field as defined in Windows, it simply enters a TAB char into the
field !.
	2) There is no way to define the navigation order, except by
hard coding _every_ field relationship. ie: you must control , in
code,  the navigation sequence. Quite insatisfactory when
developing/maintaining user Forms !

I was going to develop a new project in BETA , for the experience, but
partly because of teh above had to do the project in DELPHI insterad.

I have made representations to Mjolner about these problems with out
sucess.

However I must add that BETA is a very nice language to develop in,
the people at Mjolner very pleasant to interact with, but I have
reservations about its long term future.

Ps: You might like to  add RUBY to your language search, looks
"better" than Python




On 10 Feb 2001 22:35:39 GMT, dvdavins@aol.com (DvdAvins) wrote:

>I'm planning to write a program for myself which, if I'm happy with the way it
>turns out, I will likely distribute as shareware. I'm looking for as many of
>the following traits as possible:
>
>1:a functional language. I've been intrigued by functional languages for a
>while, but have had no occasion to use them at work.
>2: automatic garbage collection and other programmers' convenience features (I
>still have to take care of my day job)
>3: support for objects (not necessary, just a convenience)
>4: it MUST be distributable as a stand-alone program for Windows. I'd like to
>be able to distribute to Mac and Linux as well.
>
>I'm investigating at M, Python, BETA, Scheme, Haskell, Icon, and Common Lisp.
>Which would you use? Why?