day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) (05/13/88)
You may remember a while back a gentleman
dropped a little note in the C++ news group
about an OO language called Eiffel. When
I checked into it (the language is indeed
interesting), I found out that he wrote a
book on OO design that has just come out.
I've read 3 1/2 chapters so far, and it's
good, probably great, stuff. The book starts
out with a wonderful survey of the pitfalls
of non-OO design, with many historical
references and examples, and moves into an
exploration of the principles and techniques
of OO design, using Eiffel as the notation.
The book is
Object-oriented Software Construction
by Bertrand Meyer
Prentice Hall
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)
His company will ship it to you if you charge
it to your MC-VISA number or pay for it
C.O.D. P.H. hasn't sent any to my local hip
technical book store yet. It's around $40.00
Interactive Software Engineering
805-685-1006
270 Storke Road, Suite 7
Goleta, CA 93117
--dave yostpete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner) (05/13/88)
In article <411@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes: >You may remember a while back a gentleman >dropped a little note in the C++ news group >about an OO language called Eiffel. When >I checked into it (the language is indeed >interesting), I found out that he wrote a >book on OO design that has just come out. I heard Bertrand Meyer speak about Eiffel at the University of Washington a little while back and was very impressed by Eiffel. Does anyone have experience with the language in a real application? Pete Turner