day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) (11/14/88)
Pursuant to the "Guidelines" for starting a new newsgroup,
I hereby solicit yes votes for a group to be called
"comp.lang.eiffel". To vote yes, send a message with this
subject line:
Subject: comp.lang.eiffel yes
to me via email. (Do not send your vote to a newsgroup.)
There is already a mailing list (eiffel-notes@grand.COM)
covering this topic with at least 335 readers through 100
distribution points. As the administrator of that mailing
list, I also plead for mercy and ask for all to refrain from
sending "no" votes. (Administering a mailing list is a
*lot* of busy work, and I long to be set free!)
Claims:
The name is appropriate.
The topic will be interesting to plenty of readers.
The group will not be moderated.
The comp.lang.eiffel group will discuss the programming
language "Eiffel". Eiffel is a strongly-typed, Object-
oriented general purpose programming language with emphasis
on compile-time checking. It has generic types (often called
parameterized types), multiple inheritance, incrementally-
garbage-collected automatic storage, and exception handling,
among other typical object-oriented and normal functional
features. Eiffel is a recent, new design (since 1985), not
an extension of any previous language.
"Eiffel" is described in this book:
Object-oriented Software Construction
by Bertrand Meyer
Prentice Hall, 1988
International Series in Computer Science
ISBN 0-13-629049-3 hardcover
ISBN 0-13-629031-0 paperback (apparently
won't be available in the US)
Thanks
--dave yost