Talk:BETA (programming language)

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The last line claims that BETA has an "optimal balance" between compile-time and run-time type checking. Sounds quite biased. Some people think Java has the optimal balance, while others think Smalltalk does. Wouter Lievens 14:57, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Could someone please make this page readable to a lay audience, or at least add a paragraph dumbing it down to someone who doesn't know what a thing about basic programming concepts. This article sounds like it was written for people who already know what BETA is and just want a precise description. As such it is of no help to people like myself, who want to know why my blog site, my email site and my social networking sites are all going BETA. I don't have a clue what that means and I just read this page. Sorry for being trite. -Dwinetsk 21:04, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"It is well known that it is not possible to obtain complete type checking at compile-time without sacrificing the expressiveness of the language." This sounds quite adventurous to me. If this is true, I expect at least some short explanation, or better, a reference, backing up that claim. --89.54.183.96 (talk) 21:20, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Newbie question: Searching for "beta programming language" sent me to an article about IBM 7950 Harvest, which is a bit confusing. Is it possible to modify that result? Chei 13:50, 08 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to add that this article is an almost by word citation of a paper abstract; the paper can be found here (BETA-Overview). I don't have a problem with that, it should just SAY it somewhere to give credit. --91.67.242.168 (talk) 11:34, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have programmed in BETA

I have actualled programmed in BETA in the beginning of the 90's in the university of Aarhus, Denmark. I will try to dig up some more information about this programming language TraxPlayer (talk) 21:42, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]