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From: kasper@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Kasper Osterbye)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Want info on Beta language
Message-ID: <2308@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 11 Feb 88 02:46:32 GMT
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Reply-To: kasper@russell.UUCP (Kasper Osterbye)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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>In the January 1988 SIGPLAN notices there are references to a language called
>``Beta.''  Anyone know where I can find out more?
>
>Arch D. Robison
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>	
>CSNET: robison@UIUC.CSNET
>UUCP: {ihnp4,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!robison
>ARPA: robison@B.CS.UIUC.EDU (robison@UIUC.ARPA)


Currently the main source to Beta is in:

Research Directions in Object Oriented Programming.
Edited by B.D. Shriver and P. Wegner. 
MIT PRESS, 1987.

Also in that book is a paper by Ole L. Madsen on the use of block
structure in object oriented languages which are quite good.

They also had a paper or two on the Hawaii conference this year, on
how they are building a integrated envirronment for the Beta language.

I was so fortunate to get my Masters degree under supervision on Ole,
one of the four behind the project. Even though it was a somewhat
enfantile version of the compiler we had to deal with it was a great
improvement over many other languages I have seen.

Hope this is a help - otherwise just feel free to send me mail, or
I can find the address of the people for you.

/Kasper


kasper@csli.stanford.edu  (internet)