Short:        BEAST HighEnd OO-System. V1 Charlie
Author:       weertj@IAEhv.nl (Jacco van Weert)
Uploader:     weert natlab research philips com (Jacco van Weert)
Type:         dev/misc
Version:      V1 Charlie
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

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