From: Erik Ernst <eernst@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: New, free BETA interpreter (GPL)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 10:09:08 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. of Aarhus Univ.
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <pycola.868788548.4354@liw.clinet.fi>
Keywords: free BETA interpreter, GPL
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  -- Are you interested in programming languages? 

  -- Are you interested in advanced type systems, 
     and does a new, _constraint_ based concept
     of inheritance sound good? 

  -- Are you interested in the language BETA? 

  -- Are you going to give a course on modern 
     object-oriented languages, and would you 
     like to give your students some concrete
     tools for experimentation? 

Then you should consider downloading this new implementation of a
generalization of the programming language BETA, 

  ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/empl/eernst/gbeta

The ftp site contains source code, precompiled interpreters for four
platforms (Sun/Sparc,Linux,SGI/IRIX,HP-UX9), and sundry text files
giving instructions on how to install and use the interpreter.

The interpreter is very new and cannot be expected to be nearly
bugfree.  However, it is stable enough to be useful for writing small
programs (10-100 lines) and executing them in a gdb-like environment,
to investigate the semantics of both BETA and the generalization:
standard BETA programs will run with the same semantics as before, and
the new features are there if you use them.

   >>> Help me and help you: take a look at it! <<<

- --
Erik Ernst                            eernst@daimi.aau.dk
Computer Science Department of Aarhus University, Denmark



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