People

The SmallEiffel Team

The SmallEiffel Team is an informal group of people in the LORIA lab of Nancy, France, gathered around the development of new compilation techniques for object-oriented languages and their implementation in SmallEiffel, The GNU Eiffel compiler. Most of us are members of the ECOO research team of the LORIA.

Dominique COLNET: Assistant Professor at the University Henri Poincar� of Nancy.

Dominique COLNET is the one who initiated the SmallEiffel project in Summer 1994. His goal was to create an inexpensive, bug-free advanced Eiffel compiler, unlike those already available on the market.
He has been the leader of this project as well as its key designer and implementator since then. (See the history page for more information on the chronology of the SmallEiffel project).

Suzanne COLLIN: Assistant Professor at the University Henri Poincar� of Nancy.

Suzanne COLLIN has been working with Dominique from the very beginning, taking a major part in conceptual and design discussions and decisions.
Not being a member of the ECOO research team, she also provided the invaluable point of view of a user of object-oriented languages working in the field of image processing and augmented reality.

Olivier ZENDRA: Working on a PhD about the compilation of OO languages

He started working during most of his spare time with Dominique on SmallEiffel in late 1994 - early 1995. He had many conceptual and technical discussions with Dominique about languages, anchored types, ANSI C, garbage collection, etc. and participated to the first bootstrap. He also maintains the SmallEiffel Web site. He was able to join the ECOO research team in late 1997 and thus is now working almost full-time on SmallEiffel.

Former team members

Philippe COUCAUD: Master Thesis about garbage collection in OO languages.

After being a student of Dominique, and in charge of the Macintosh-ready versions of SmallEiffel during his free-time since 1996, Philippe joined the SmallEiffel team of the ECOO research team between February and September 1998 for his Master thesis. He worked more especially on the garbage collector.

Other contributors

Many people have contributed to SmallEiffel, The GNU Eiffel Compiler.

The first of them, in chronological order, are the computer science students of the University Henri Poincar� of Nancy, France. They tested and benchmarked it, providing very useful information in the early days of SmallEiffel.

Then, many people, either working in computer engineering or computer science, or simply users working in various academic and business fields, took part in the process of improving SmallEiffel. Since it became The GNU Eiffel Compiler, in early 1998, even more people are helping its development.

We want to thanks all these people who help us in this great adventure. Althought it is not possible to mention them all, here is a short list of the most important contributors.