Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Fifth International Eiffel Programming Contest

Posted by timothy on from the climb-the-outside-for-a-bonus dept.

Berend de Boer writes "After a two year hiatus, the Eiffel Struggle is organized again. This series of contests started in 1997. To enter, people have to submit an Eiffel application or library. Closing date is October 31. Entries are judged according to 12 criteria. Entries are ranked into gold, silver and bronze. In order of rank, winners will be able to pick one of the prizes ."

3 of 21 comments (clear)

  1. Eiffel.NET by Per+Wigren · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I love Eiffel, it's a beautiful language! The only problem is that because almost nobody else uses it, I can't use it either because I have to stay compatible with others.. I wish the smarteiffel-programmers will make it a full CLR-language so I can use .NET-classes and make my Eiffel-classes usable by others...

    --
    My other account has a 3-digit UID.
    1. Re:Eiffel.NET by berenddeboer · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Agreed. Correctness is not something programmers are interested in, it seems. Why else are people still using languages that cannot assure that you do not compare metres and feet? Why are people still using languages that cannot assure you don't have buffer overflows?

      Testing doesn't help, because your tests can have bugs too and are probably incomplete. It's gives a lot of peace to the mind if you hit the compile button in Eiffel and it compiles successfully.

      That does not imply Eiffel is the end of the road. I would like to see something like Spark being available for Eiffel.

      --
      If I had a sig, I would put it here.
    2. Re:Eiffel.NET by morgajel · · Score: 3, Interesting

      For a Programming Languages class we covered eiffel.
      nearly everyone who took the class walked away with a bad experience. Why? Because of the documentation.
      If you want eiffel to be more widely used, I highly suggest someone writing some decent documentation. Perhaps a searchable database of object, along with description of what the objects do and what their functions do.

      That was my only real complaint. the current documentation sucks.

      --
      Looking for Book Reviews? Check out Literary Escapism.