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EiffelStudio Goes Open

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the born-to-be-free dept.

WeiszNet writes "Bertrand Meyer, the creator of Eiffel the language and CTO of Eiffel Software in Santa Barbara, CA has announced in his Software Architecture course at ETH Zurich that the company's flagship product - EiffelStudio was released under the GPL today. Here is the press release: and the project's page. Eiffel is an object oriented programming language supporting contracts. Last year the international standard (ECMA) for Eiffel was released and now the initiative to go open has been taken."

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  1. Yep by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure we'll all be programming in Eiffel in a few years. Yep.

  2. About time by imbaczek · · Score: 5, Funny

    This was the #1 reason for not using Eifell.

    1. Re:About time by Eightyford · · Score: 2, Funny

      This was the #1 reason for not using Eifell.

      That, and it sounds French...

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    2. Re:About time by x2A · · Score: 3, Funny

      yeah it just quits half way through :-p

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    3. Re:About time by papasui · · Score: 1, Funny

      Thanks, I've been looking for a development enviroment that surrenders, drinks wine, smokes, and calls me `Ahmereecan Swine`. I'll give it a go.

    4. Re:About time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      And raises your taxes and burns your car.

      Of course.

  3. Oh Thank God by bigtallmofo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Eiffel is an object oriented programming language supporting contracts.

    I was beginning to get concerned about the incredible lack of object oriented programming languages currently available.

    Fortunately, there's now another one to choose from that is now free.

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    1. Re:Oh Thank God by maxwell+demon · · Score: 3, Funny
      It is old enough to drink.

      I'm not sure that drunken languages are an advantage :-)
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  4. To make a long story short ... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other words, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. I'll be damned ... that Wirth guy was right after all.

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  5. Re:the "pet rock" of programming languages by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Harsh.

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  6. Re:Differences by scragz · · Score: 2, Funny

    ". . .the biggest thing Eiffel has going for it is raw speed."

    Wikipedia's entry gives the secret to this raw speed:

    "Eiffel is generally closely connected to C: three of the four Eiffel compilers output no object or machine code, but only C source code as an intermediate language, to submit to a C compiler, for optimizing and portability."

  7. Re:the "pet rock" of programming languages by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well as I recall it was (1) flipping switches (machine code), then (2) assemblers, then (3) macroassemblers, then (4) fortran, then (6) lisp. I'm pretty sure that the first 5 didn't have garbage collection.

    Somehow I'm missing (5) ...
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