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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Subject: Re: Intro. book on Eiffel Programming...?
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:06:29 GMT
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- cwt26780@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Conrad W Taylor) writes:
- > I'm looking for an introductory book on Eiffel programming that in-
- >cludes a great deal of examples. The only source that I have at this time is
- >Eiffel: The Language which is more of a reference for the language instead of
- >an introductory book on programming in Eiffel. If anyone knows of such a text
- >, please e-mail me at ctaylor@ncsa.uiuc.edu or cwt26780@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu.
-
- Bertram Meyer's books are all there are, apparently. There are three
- of them (on design, the language, and the library) and each uses a different
- version of Eiffel. This, of course, will not bother the serious student.
-
- Remember, programming in Eiffel is supposed to be HARD. You have
- to SUFFER for your art. Eiffel is in the grand tradition of the the Hoare
- "programming is not for everyone" school. The formalism is not to be
- avoided, but studied with dedication until it is mastered. One can no
- more program properly without mastery of the formal approach than one can
- do physics without calculus.
-
- If you want OOP the easy way, use Smalltalk.
-
- John Nagle
-