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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Des.Kenny
- From: Des.Kenny@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Subject: Re: Eiffel Description
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:27:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.212733.8238@actrix.gen.nz>
- Keywords: Eiffel, Introduction
- References: <1992Dec19.143052.21438@mic.ucla.edu> <MATTHEW.92Dec23145958@eeyore.ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi>
- Sender: Des.Kenny@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
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- In article <MATTHEW.92Dec23145958@eeyore.ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi> matthew@ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi (Matthew Faupel) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec19.143052.21438@mic.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
- >
- > IW: Is there a 2-10 page description of Eiffel features? I'd like to switch to
- > IW: a safer language than C++, and a number of people mentioned Eiffel. I have
- > IW: no idea of what features it has.
- >
- > I have a 14 page leaflet from Interactive Software Engineering Inc (the
- > original designers of Eiffel) called "Eiffel: An introduction". This may be
- > what you're after. The document has a number: TR-EI-3/GI and I would guess
- > that it is available directly from ISE at:
- >
- > Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
- > 270 Storke Road, Suite 7,
- > Goleta, CA 93117
- > USA
- >
- > Phone: +1 805 685 1006 Fax: +1 805 685 6869.
- >
- > N.B. This information is directly from the leaflet which was published in
- > 1989 and so may well be out of date. Would somebody kindly post a
- > correction if this is wrong...
-
- The most recent introduction to Eiffel is in the book
- "Eiffel the Language", Prentice Hall, 1992.
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- --Des Kenny
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