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- From: iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
- Subject: Eiffel Description
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.143052.21438@mic.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA, Anderson Graduate School Of Management
- Date: 19 Dec 92 14:30:51 PST
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- Is there a 2-10 page description of Eiffel features? I'd like to switch to
- a safer language than C++, and a number of people mentioned Eiffel. I have
- no idea of what features it has.
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- I would like to get garbage collection and type-safety, as well as
- (numeric-support) features such as operator overloading and IEEE awareness,
- linking with Fortran/C (and C++) code, a debugging facility, and modern
- data/object structures. Speed is important but not so important as to
- preclude simple automatic run-time checks.
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- Is there a trial/real version of Eiffel that runs on NeXT computers?
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- /ivo welch
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