peter@hpkslx.HP.COM (Peter Huang 1-691-5272) (03/12/88)
/ hpkslx:comp.lang.c++ / djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) / 3:09 pm Mar 4, 1988 / I just read part of a posting about a language called 'Eifel'. >> Are you referring language called 'Eiffel'? Still, I like to learn about every language that I can, and the intro said that Eifel has multiple inheritance. So I am interested. Anybody know how I can find out more about it? Recommend a book? >> Eiffel is a product from Interactive Software Engineering, Inc. >> Their address is 270 Storke Road, suite 7, Goleta, Ca. 93117. The >> only documentation I knew is the one from them. There is a article on >> IEEE Software (March 1987) by the author of the software. It is based >> on Simula. All the usual questions: 1. Is it commercially available (for Sun workstations) at a reasonable price? >> I saw the demo on a Sun workstation. I forgot the price, somewhere around >> 1k. 2. Is it object-compatible with old libraries (C and Fortran, etc.)? >> It generates c code 3. Are compile-times quick? >> good question 4. Does it have a compiler/dynamic-linker that can be loaded into an application? >> there is a article on Computer Language (Sept, 1986) about a product >> Cepage using Eiffel
hal@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) (03/18/88)
Doesn't anybody know how to use a library? Anyway, here's a few references on Eiffel: B. Meyer, J.-M. Nerson, and M. Matsuo, "Eiffel: Object-Oriented Design for Software Engineering", Proceedings 1st European Software Engineering Conference, Strasbourg, France, Sept. 1987 (ESEC '87), Lec. Notes. in Comp. Sci. vol. 289, Springer-Verlag, 1987. B. Meyer, "Eiffel: Programming for Reusability and Extendibility", Sigplan Notices, Feb. 1987, pp. 85-94. B. Meyer, "Eiffel: A Language and Environment for Software Engineering", to appear in Journal of Systems and Software. B. Meyer, Object-oriented Software Construction, 1987. To appear. The last two references are given in the first paper. Hal Perkins hal@gvax.cs.cornell.edu Cornell CS hal@crnlcs.bitnet