Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!noatun.mjolner.dk!mail-to-news From: Jan Atle Ramsli Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: PS about Beta fork Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:21:06 +0200 Organization: Posted to comp.lang.beta by a mailtonews script Lines: 21 Sender: lbr@mjolner.dk Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: bifrost.mjolner.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1018985330 21740 130.225.4.254 (16 Apr 2002 19:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Mailing-List: contact usergroup-help@mjolner.dk; run by ezmlm X-No-Archive: yes X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en X-Original-Message-ID: <3CBC4F72.4CEBB577@skynet.be> X-Original-Sender: atle@riker.skynet.be Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.lang.beta:13204 About a Beta fork of sorts, please check out Dr. Erik Ernst's Gbeta at http://www.cs.au.dk/~eernst/gbeta/ Gbeta is a sort of Beta++ I have had it explained to me, but need to become at least semi-proficient in regular Beta to say something about it, other than that it has at least one totally unique operator, x&y meaning 'merge patterns x & y', I think it is called the 'merge' or 'union' operator. It does not have a corresponding 'intersection' operator :-) But it is 'pattern calculus' all the same. The system is GPL, implemented in Beta. --------------------------------------- So that may have influenced me in my dream, sort of like an IDE going in one direction and some advanced language concepts coming back the other way, without wanting to have any more such discussions .... Atle