cross platform ide

[Alex Rice]

On Jan 26, 2004, at 9:58 PM, DVGlasgow at aol.com wrote:
>
> http://www.eiffel.com/products/studio52/
>
> Just chanced upon this and thought it might be keeping an eye on.  
> This is
> *NOT* an endorsement or promotion.  Its just that revolutionaries must 
> always
> keep an eye on the competition.

Eiffel is at the extreme opposite end of the spectrum from xtalk 
languages both in cost and in language purpose.

Instead of ad-hoc message passing and script evaluation found in 
xtalks, Eiffel code is meticulously crafted with strictly typed objects 
that can only connect with other particular objects and call certain 
functions; "design by contract" they call it.

What you would build with Eiffel is more like a banking system or 
database system - where transactional integrity is the most important 
aspect.

However if anyone is interested in a good book on object oriented 
software development there is a book by Bertrand Meyer (Eiffel creator) 
that is very good but tough reading. title _Object Oriented Software 
Construction_

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Alex Rice | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com