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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Des.Kenny
- From: Des.Kenny@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Eiffel Description
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:59:46 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.225946.11993@actrix.gen.nz>
- Summary: Eiffel on NeXT
- Keywords: Eiffel, Next
- References: <1992Dec19.143052.21438@mic.ucla.edu>
- Sender: Des.Kenny@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Lines: 45
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- In article <1992Dec19.143052.21438@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
- >
- > Is there a 2-10 page description of Eiffel features? I'd like to switch to
- > a safer language than C++, and a number of people mentioned Eiffel. I have
- > no idea of what features it has.
- >
- One of the major features of Eiffel is the strong focus on reliability.
- Where reliability is defined to be correctness and robustness. By this
- definition correctness means consistently implementing the specification
- and robustness means handling exceptions in a safe way to maximise fault
- tolerence.
-
- Such issues of quality are a major focus in Eiffel and in the BON
- methodology for analysis, design, programming and maintenance.
-
- The primary source is "Eiffel the Language", Bertrand Meyer, Prentice Hall,
- 1992. This book has been adopted as the definition of the language
- ( version 3) by the international standards body NICE
- ( Non-profit International Consortium for Eiffel). It has a 20 page
- introduction that summarises the main features of Eiffel 3.
-
- It is both a user manual and the language reference manual.
-
- > I would like to get garbage collection and type-safety, as well as
- > (numeric-support) features such as operator overloading and IEEE awareness,
- > linking with Fortran/C (and C++) code, a debugging facility, and modern
- > data/object structures. Speed is important but not so important as to
- > preclude simple automatic run-time checks.
- >
- > Is there a trial/real version of Eiffel that runs on NeXT computers?
- >
- Yes there is a version of Eiffel for NeXT.
-
- contact : Darcy Harrison
- email: Darcy@eiffel.com
-
-
-
- -- Des Kenny
- Objective Methods Ltd
- PO Box 17356
- Wellington
- phone: 64 4 476 9499
- fax: 64 4 476 9237
- email: Des.Kenny@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
-