Eiffel as a Gnome Development Language ?

Thomas Delaet writes " This article is a short evaluation of Eiffel as a language for developing the core gnome desktop platform. Last month, there has been a heavy debate about a successor for C/C++ as the language of choice for developing the core gnome desktop components in. The debate has mostly focussed around C#/Mono and Java. This article tries to summarize the different requirements for a gnome development language and shows how Eiffel fits in these criteria."

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STL

[Anonymous Coward]

Most of the big complaints about the security of C++ come because people have little experience with STL and use their own proprietary container classes. In reality STL has given C++ a new life. C++ can be as security safe as C# or java if a comple of simple programming techniques are used: use the STL object classes--they are fast and safe though they require training to use effectively (Scott Meyers' Effective STL is a good start), use garbage collection or register major components (similar to what Mozilla does) to minimize memory leaks, and use exceptions safely (knowing the effect of what construction and destuction of objects will have when the exception is thrown). There really isn't a need to reduce the number of programmers and eyes by switching to Eifell. Just make sure everyone is trained to operate C++ to its full potential.