BETA

BETA is an actively used programming language created in 1983. BETA is a pure object-oriented language originating within the "Scandinavian School" in object-orientation where the first object-oriented language Simula was developed. Among its notable features, it introduced nested classes, and unified classes with procedures into so called patterns.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• BETA ranks in the top 5% of languages
• the BETA website
• the BETA wikipedia page
• BETA first appeared in 1983
• See also: simula, eiffel
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Example code from the Hello World Collection:

{ *** Hello World in BETA ***}
(#
  do
     'Hello World!'->putLine
#)

Example code from Wikipedia:

max: (#
    x, y, z: @integer
enter (x, y)
do
    (if x >= y // True then
        x -> z
    else
        y -> z
    if)
exit z
#)

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