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Eiffel Programming Contest Results

Posted by michael on from the insert-tower-joke-here dept.

Berend de Boer writes "NICE, the nonprofit International Consortium for Eiffel, has announced the results of its fifth International Eiffel Programming Contest. This year had cash prizes of up to 1400 USD and software valued up to $8000 USD. There were 17 entries. The top scores were:ePalm, bringing Eiffel to PalmOS; ewg, generating C code binding glue; and Hbchess, a chess engine."

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  1. ePalm by ajagci · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Technically, ePalm sounds like it might be a good thing. SmartEiffel, which it is based on, can generate quite compact native code even from large, object-oriented libraries because it performs global optimizations; that makes it a better choice than VM-based systems like Java or .NET. Furthermore, PalmOS doesn't isolate programs very well from one another, so a language like Eiffel, with built-in garbage collection and error checking, has a real advantage over C.

    Still, SuperWaba probably fills that niche well enough and Palm handhelds are getting powerful enough so that the advantages of ePalm won't be big enough to let it catch on.