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- From: Mike Young <mikey@mcs.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Portability of code & skills (Beware of "C" Hackers etc)
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:34:21 -0600
- Organization: Fen Software, Inc.
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- Don Harrison wrote:
- >
- > These sound like good ideas. However, IMO, Eiffel is not a tool that would be
- > readily marketed to the C community because their focus is different. Eiffel has
- > too high an emphasis on quality and reliability to appeal to most C users ;-).
- > It would be more attractive to those who actually practice real software
- > engineering (rather than paying lip service to it).
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- (Sigh.) Now that it's been said yet again, I find it increasingly easy
- to believe, smileys or no.
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