TITLE
BEAST - Building Environment All SysTems
VERSION
V1 Charlie
AUTHOR
MSD = Maverick Software Development
BEAST - Jacco van Weert <weertj@IAEhv.nl>
B52 - Frans Slothouber <slothoub@xs4all.nl>
DESCRIPTION
About one year ago the BEAST project started as result of the ancient
IGL ((C) 1991 Akzo Research/MSD) and the MAGICBench ((C) 1994 RIF/MSD).
BEAST offers the programmer an environment to develope Object-Based and/or
Object-Oriented classes in _any_ language. Complete programs can be build by
connecting methods to each other. B52 offers a FORTH based programming language
which can be intergrated in BEAST. Classes written in B52 are portable to all
computer systems which have access to BEAST. Building BEAST programs
requires a whole new programming approach, altough it is possible to
use BEAST classes in a 'ordinary' way, lies the true power of BEAST in
the 'visual' part of BEAST by connecting classes without the need of
any procedural program.
The features of BEAST:
* Object-based and Object-Oriented Engine.
* Classes are language independent.
* Dynamic Object creation.
* Add and remove methods runtime.
* Propagation/Delegation of methods throughout the whole object tree.
* Create connection networks between methods.
* Programs can be build only with objects and their connections.
* Programs created in this way can serve as new class again.
* Object-trees can consist out of objects from different tasks to
objects from different computer systems across a network.
* All communication is done by TagLists.
* B52, a FORTH language with BEAST/OO extensions, with B52 it is
possible to write portable classes. B52 is also used for data-files.
BEAST uses B52 for data-files and more, in this way data-files are
program _themselves_.
For questions about BEAST don't hesitate to contact:
weertj@IAEhv.nl
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Amiga version:
AmigaOS 2.0 or higher.
AVAILABILITY
Aminet (Amiga version):
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/dev/misc/BST_System.lha
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/dev/misc/BST_SystemDocs.lha
WWW:
http://www.IAEhv.nl/users/weertj/BEAST/BEAST.html
FTP:
ftp://ftp.IAEhv.nl/users/weertj/
PRICE
Free.
The BEAST system library is free and may be used in public domain to
commercial products with the now following restrictions;
- In the product documentation the use of BEAST must be stated.
- Because BEAST is new it is important to keep track of the applications
created with BEAST in order to maintain backward compatibility, therefore
BEAST programmers should registrate themselves.
Registration is free and in this way you will be added to the 'sort-of'
BEAST mailing list.
- If your application is shareware or commercial, I want a free copy =).
Registration: send a mail to weertj@IAEhv.nl with as subject "BEAST Registration"
The registration is also interesting for those people who want to develop BEAST
classes and want their 'Methods' and 'Tags' included in the BEAST.
DISTRIBUTABILITY
BEAST
Copyright (C) 1996, Maverick Software Development, Jacco van Weert
B52
Copyright (C) 1996, Maverick Software Development, Frans Slothouber
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