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- From: Ted.W.Lawson@cm.cf.ac.uk (Ted Lawson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Subject: Re: Intro. book on Eiffel Programming...?
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- Date: 25 Jul 92 13:03:10 GMT
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- In article <pyhmn2d.nagle@netcom.com> nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) writes:
- |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.
-
- etc, etc....
-
- | 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.
-
- etc, etc.....
- | John Nagle
-
-
- I think this is meant to be a little joke. Just in case it is not
- let me say that over the past two years I have supervised about
- half a dozen students at final year or masters level all of whom
- have successfully and enjoyably completed practical programming
- projects in Eiffel using for guidance nothing more than
- "Object-Oriented Software Construction" and the ISE library source
- code and documentation. The projects were all of roughly 2
- man-months duration. In several cases the student had no prior
- knowledge of object-orientation whatsoever.
-
- It certainly would be nice if there were a few more text books
- on Eiffel. The reason there are not is perhaps because Bertrand
- Meyer's books are so well-written. Anyone contemplating writing an
- alternative has a hard act to follow.
-
- This situation is in contrast to that of another well-known O-O
- language where the seminal text book was a mess and so its
- appearance was quickly followed by books from other authors who
- knew they could do better.
-
- Ted Lawson
-