The development of BEE starts from an experimental technology called OLDPAL (OnLine Database Programming Accelerator Language).  OLDPAL was a set of non-procedural database access and display script aiming at simplifying the mSQL coding (and subsequently MySQL coding).  As the name implies, it severs only database access, which happened to be the dominant process in the commercial web applications that Accsoft (the developer of BEE) writes and hosts for its customers.

OLDPAL was nothing like the BEE Script that we see today.  However, OLDPAL's core concept and the design principles have been inherited by BEE, which has taken the idea to a new level since.  Even now, some low level OLDPAL objects are still being used within BEE.